> And, btw, why should an init system come bundled with a time client or a time client bundled with an init system? That's entirely up to distribution packager

> And, btw, why should an init system come bundled with a time client or a time client bundled with an init system? That's entirely up to distribution packagers. 39k bytes and you get a dead-simple working ntp client daemon (no server) which requires literally no setup. If the distro packagers want to split it out or not include it at all, they can do that and the build system is set up to make that easy. So it really depends on how you mean "bundled", it's good and there's basically no reason not to include it in the package. I also figure it's a bit of a straw man to hypothesize a bug which hasn't occurred. NTP, as far as I'm aware, is mostly static structures on the wire. If there's a problem with the client, it's most likely your clock will just be wrong; bad as that is.