On 06/18/2017 08:34 PM, Tom H wrote: > On Sat, Jun 17, 2017 at 1:46 PM, Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> wrote: >> On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 09:44:27PM +1000, Michael Palimaka wrote >>> >>> Someone raised the issue that the "time server" option in the date >>> and time applet was greyed out on their system. It turns out that >>> this occurs if neither ntpdate nor rdate binaries are present, so I >>> added the dep. There's been some pushback on this so maybe it'll be >>> reverted or maybe not. It's being tracked in bug #621754 for anyone >>> who wants to chime in. >> >> 1) If you don't have a time server, you don't have a time server. Why >> is that a problem? Remember that Gentoo is about choice. An "ewarn" >> message might be appropriate about "missing functionality", but that's >> about it. > > Given that the binaries that it looks for are ntpdate and rdate, it's > about having an ntp client. It's strange that chronyd isn't one of > these binaries, especially since, IIRC, ntpdate and rdate are > deprecated. > >
Unfortunately upstream doesn't care about anything except systemd. It's possible a patch adding support for other time clients might be accepted, but looking at the commit adding systemd support[1], I wonder how long it is until "legacy" support for this sort of thing is dropped entirely. 1: https://cgit.kde.org/plasma-desktop.git/commit/kcms/dateandtime/dtime.cpp?id=b6ae01ca8ea776c97cc57836401ca9696e2529e8
