Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ntp Vs openntp vis a vis Plasma desktop

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On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 6:44 AM, Michael Palimaka <kensington@g.o> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 06/16/2017 04:19 PM, Andrew Lowe wrote:
>> Good afternoon all,
>>       Does anyone have any inside knowledge as to why 5.9.5 of KDE plasma
>> desktop did not require ntp whereas 5.10.5 does? I use Openntp and been
>> using KDE 5 for ages with the time being correct so was wondering why
>> now the requirement for net-misc/ntp specifically.
>>
>>       Any thoughts, greatly appreciated,
>>
>>               Andrew
>>
>>
>
> 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.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Michael
>

Is it not possible to add it via a USE flag? Even if there are no real
compile time options, could the flag pull in ntp? I'm not sure
complaining about the addition of net-misc/ntp is reasonable; for one,
you're already installing KDE and all of its dependencies; for
another, that KDE is designed with one NTP implementation in mind may
be a flaw but that probably belongs on the KDE tracker.

On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 9:26 AM, Grant Edwards
<grant.b.edwards@×××××.com> wrote:
> On 2017-06-16, Michael Palimaka <kensington@g.o> 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,
>
> That seems like perfectly reasonable and correct behavior.  Why is
> it an issue?
>

It may not be immediately obvious how to fix it.

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