[@core] working definition for the minimal package set

[Seth Vidal]

On Tue, 13 Nov 2012, Matthew Miller wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 08:00:23PM -0500, Ben Cotton wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 4:41 PM, Bill Nottingham <notting at redhat.com> wrote:
>>> [list of packages]
>> ntpdate
>> chrony
>
> On EC2 (as in many virt environments) the hardware clock source is actually
> synced and running an ntpd service on the client is redundant.

I would say this is not accurate.

My experience with the instances running under xen is that that is true.
My experience with the instances running in euca under kvm is that that is 
not true.

-sv