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On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 09:44:27PM +1000, Michael Palimaka wrote |
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> Someone raised the issue that the "time server" option in the date |
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> and time applet was greyed out on their system. It turns out that |
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> this occurs if neither ntpdate nor rdate binaries are present, so I |
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> added the dep. There's been some pushback on this so maybe it'll be |
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> reverted or maybe not. It's being tracked in bug #621754 for anyone |
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> who wants to chime in. |
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Not a KDE user, but some thoughts anyways. |
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1) If you don't have a time server, you don't have a time server. Why |
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is that a problem? Remember that Gentoo is about choice. An "ewarn" |
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message might be appropriate about "missing functionality", but that's |
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about it. |
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2) Remember that Gentoo is about choice. Howsabout a USE flag that |
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pulls in a "virtual-ntpserver" ebuild? This could be satisfied by ntp |
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or openntpd. There are probably other packages that might satisfy the |
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virtual. |
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications |
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