On 2017-01-04 18:01, Michael Biebl wrote: > I also notice that ntp itself does not itself have a provides > time-daemon, only chrony and openntpd do. > > Those do have Conflicts/Replaces/Provides: time-daemon > > So, by adding Provides: time-daemon, it would make those packages > uninstallable and maybe someone wants to use chrony or openntpd instead > of timesyncd.
Definitely a good point, this shouldn't happen. I guess that distributing timesyncd in a different package (systemd-timesyncd, like systemd-cron) is not worth the effort... Paride