Re: [meta-oe][PATCH v2 1/3] meta-systemd: Move ntp recipes to 'meta-networking' sublayer

[Phil Blundell <philb@gnu.org>]

On Wed, 2012-10-31 at 10:40 -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 10:38 AM, Phil Blundell <philb@gnu.org> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2012-10-31 at 10:29 -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> >> Well, I cannot ask for a pool zone for OE or Yocto; it'd be good but
> >> it is not yet done and I prefer to have it merged and changed once it
> >> happens.
> >
> > The obvious problem with that approach is that "it" may never happen
> > (especially if you're relying on some as-yet-unidentified third party to
> > do the work) and, even if it does, arbitrarily many people might ship
> > the broken configuration in the meantime.  Merging a change that we know
> > is wrong seems like a bad plan.
> 
> It is better then a broken .service file IMO ;-)

Well, I guess that's where we disagree.  Can you elaborate on why having
no default NTP server in the metadata is such a crisis, and why none of
the other options I mentioned before is a suitable way to deal with the
problem?

p.