[Nix-dev] Enable openntpd instead ntp by default

[Kirill Elagin]

If we are talking about _defaults_, than “no extra packages” is the best
option, IMHO, and systemd already ships `systemd-timesyncd`, why not use it?
On Mon Dec 22 2014 at 6:02:03 Anderson Torres <torres.anderson.85 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> There exists a "portable" (OS-independent) version of OpenNTPD?
> Normally, Theo de Raadt makes two versions: the main, official,
> OpenBSD-tuned version; and the "OS-independent", portable one.
>
> Everything being the same, I don't think it is difficult to change
> from one to other. There are Nix Wiki hints about making services on
> Nix.
>
> Particularly, I would like!
>
> 2014-12-21 18:32 GMT-02:00, Paul Colomiets <paul at colomiets.name>:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm not sure was it discussed before, but I want to ask if we should
> > enable openntpd instead of ntpd by default?
> >
> > The motivation basically is that openntpd is smaller and more secure
> > than current default. More details are there:
> >
> > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.openbsd.tech/40107/
> >
> > Thoughts?
> >
> > --
> > Paul
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