On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 10:49 PM, Emmanuele Bassi <eba...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 20 January 2012 17:12, Michael Biebl <mbi...@gmail.com> wrote: >> It's unfortunately not as simple as that as far as Debian is concerned >> or any other non-Linux distro. systemd is Linux-only. The >> aforementioned components timedated, hostnamed and localed can't be >> compiled on non-Linux systems. > > this hasn't changed: non-Linux systems were not supported before > either. actually using, by a neutral DBus interface instead of ad hoc > code for each platform, it may be easier to get support on other > platforms without requiring to patch g-c-c directly. >
For those finding it hard to understand how this is better than before: Try to think of it as a freedesktop standard for time and date (like org.fdo.Notifications). It even uses the same DBus namespace! Once a provider is implemented (by porting timedated or whatever) it can be reused everywhere. -- ~Nirbheek Chauhan Gentoo GNOME+Mozilla Team _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list