On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 6:44 AM, Michael Palimaka <kensing...@gentoo.org> 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.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 2017-06-16, Michael Palimaka <kensing...@gentoo.org> 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. R0b0t1.
