On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 01:07:39PM +0000, Camaleón wrote:
> For instance, I wouldn't see any objection in splitting the package in 
> the same way sshd is (there is a "client" and a "server" part) and set 
> the desired configuration (as server or client) for each of them.

I would. The answer to people wanting different configurations is not always to
provide different packages. There's a lot of overhead in doing so and it's
rarely worth the cost IMHO.  Rather the majority case be provided for by
default, and the exceptional case by tweaking /etc/default/FOO.

> The problem I see here is that it seems that ntpd itself is designed 
> kinda in a "monolithic" way and to make it acting as "server" or "client" 
> is somehow fuzzy and the same goes for its default configuration settings.

Yes.


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