chrony as default NTP client?

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On 05/05/2010 09:35 AM, Miroslav Lichvar wrote:
> With the latest improvements in the chrony package related to
> NetworkManager and name resolving I think it is now good enough to
> replace ntpd in the default configuration and the configurations
> supported by system-config-date.
> 

 Strong NO vote.

  Replacing a robust and mature package with an immature one which may
have security issues (in fact has had recently) should not be taken lightly.

   The prime motivation of this project is a use case of intermittent
internet connections of 5 mins a day.

  I seriously doubt that is the common use case for majority of fedora
users.

 I think this is a terrible idea.


 gene/


 PS:
  Aside - I also dont understand the motivation to start again and
reimplement the wheel all over again ... and not take advantage of a
mature product and work to improve ntpd or enhance it.