[@core] working definition for the minimal package set

[John.Florian at dart.biz]

> From: Stephen John Smoogen <smooge at gmail.com>
> > On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 08:00:23PM -0500, Ben Cotton wrote:
> > On EC2 (as in many virt environments) the hardware clock source is 
actually
> > synced and running an ntpd service on the client is redundant.
> >
> 
> <bikeshed=blue>
> They say it is .... but it is not always.  I have had multiple cases
> in KVM and some in Xen where supposedly the clock is kept up but what
> you end up is actually watching time go backwards if you hit heavy
> load in IO or CPU or Mem.  Of course if you run into hardware like
> that.. you can install it after your DB has gone poopsies.
> </bikeshed>

I've seen that happen as well.  I found this by hitting the pause button 
on the guest IIRC.  I just always use NTP to avoid the worry, but I agree 
NTP (whether ntpd or chronyd) belongs in @standard not @core.

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John Florian
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