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

2017-06-18 Thread Michael Palimaka
On 06/18/2017 08:34 PM, Tom H wrote: > On Sat, Jun 17, 2017 at 1:46 PM, Walter Dnes 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

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

2017-06-18 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Jun 17, 2017 at 1:46 PM, Walter Dnes 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

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

2017-06-17 Thread Walter Dnes
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

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

2017-06-17 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 16 Jun 2017 21:44:27 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

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

2017-06-16 Thread Rich Freeman
On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 10:34 AM, R0b0t1 wrote: > > 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? Could a USE flag do this? Sure. Should it? No. "The usage of a USE flag should not control runtime

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

2017-06-16 Thread R0b0t1
On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 6:44 AM, Michael Palimaka 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

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

2017-06-16 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2017-06-16, 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, That seems like perfectly

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

2017-06-16 Thread Michael Palimaka
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