Re: [gentoo-user] BS dependencies?

["Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <bss03@volumehost.net>]

On Sunday 26 February 2006 04:21, gentuxx <gentuxx@gmail.com> wrote about 
'[gentoo-user] BS dependencies?':
> Why in the world to I need Apache, php(4), and a whole host of other
> packages (22 to be exact) just to install NTP?  Now, I'm assuming that
> the net-misc/ntp package is actually the daemon, and not just the
> client.

NTP is similar to many P2P protocols in that "clients" are normally also 
long running background processes, daemons (or paenguins).  There are some 
clients that use NTP messages to fetch a single time and set your clock 
using it, but then you still get network latency "noise" and other 
inaccuracies.  For daily work that's really not a big deal, but if you are 
going to use NTP I suggest you really use NTP and run a daemon.  The 
default config for both net-misc/ntp and openntpd does not listen on any 
ports by default, so it shouldn't raise many security issues.

As far an these unwanted dependencies go, could you please provide the 
output for emerge -pvt net-misc/ntp so we can see the whole dependency 
chain?

> Can anyone suggest a client *only* package?  I've got a system that
> doesn't hold it's time after a reboot - all I really need is the
> ability to update the system time.

Just use rdate then.

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