Bug 1887169 - Split out timesyncd into own sub-package
Summary: Split out timesyncd into own sub-package
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: systemd
Version: rawhide
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
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medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: systemd-maint
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2020-10-11 13:49 UTC by Robert Scheck
Modified: 2021-01-31 11:09 UTC (History)
11 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2021-01-31 11:09:47 UTC
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Description Robert Scheck 2020-10-11 13:49:51 UTC
Description of problem:
People making decisions for RHEL 8 do not seem to like systemd-timesyncd as they've demonstrated with RHEL 8 by not shipping it, so please split systemd-timesyncd into its own sub-package to ease community interests for RHEL 9 to provide a separate systemd-timesyncd package - quite similar as it has happened for systemd-networkd.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
systemd-246.6-3.fc34

Actual results:
systemd-timesyncd is part of the main systemd package.

Expected results:
systemd-timesyncd in its own sub-package.

Comment 1 Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek 2020-10-26 21:09:01 UTC
So... will we be asked to created a separate subpackage for every pointless removal that RHEL does?
It's not too much of an issue to create a subpackage, but systemd has ~150 components, and I don't
want to end up with another texlive on my hands.

Comment 2 Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek 2020-12-16 14:36:24 UTC
After thinking about this a bit more, I'm inclined to close as WONTFIX.
I made an exception for systemd-networkd, because it a) is fairly big, and
b) the subpackage was solving an issue that was already extant in coreos.
But splitting things out increases complexity and makes the experience worse for the packager
and for users.
systemd-timesyncd is ~200kb and brings in no additional dependencies.


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