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.
Not a KDE user, but some thoughts anyways. 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. 2) Remember that Gentoo is about choice. Howsabout a USE flag that pulls in a "virtual-ntpserver" ebuild? This could be satisfied by ntp or openntpd. There are probably other packages that might satisfy the virtual. -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
