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.
