“Systemd should not default to using time{1,2,3,4}.google.com”

Re:“Systemd should not default to using time{1,2,3,4}.google... by bjourne on Wednesday July 01, 2015 @09:55AM (#9811794)

You are comparing apples to oranges. systemd takes policy decisions but it doesn't provide infrastructure and a set of ntp servers is infrastructure. Likewise, a web server encodes a lot policies (most of which aren't set in stone by any standard) on how http requests should be handled but it doesn't come with a default cdn.

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Re:“Systemd should not default to using time{1,2,3,4}.google... by vezzy-fnord on Wednesday July 01, 2015 @10:32AM (#9812038)

but it doesn't provide infrastructure

...How does it not? That's the point of systemd: provide a GNU/Linux middleware with lots of policy decisions on the structure of distros to supposedly bring integration and uniformity benefits.

The fact that it's core infrastructure but heavily delves outside of mechanism is what makes it so controversial.

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Re:“Systemd should not default to using time{1,2,3,4}.google... by bjourne on Wednesday July 01, 2015 @10:54AM (#9812192)

I meant physical server infrastructure. Not the allegorical infrastructure formed by Linux packages communicating. Yes, I know the infrastructure word is horribly overloaded.

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