Re: [gnome-settings-daemon] datetime: Remove datetime D-Bus mechanism



On Fri, 2012-01-20 at 13:57 +0100, Antoine Jacoutot wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 12:37:44PM +0000, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > On Fri, 2012-01-20 at 09:34 +0100, Olav Vitters wrote:
> > > On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 08:04:36AM +0000, Emmanuele Bassi wrote:
> > > > On 20 January 2012 03:25, Lennart Poettering <mztabzr 0pointer de> wrote:
> > > > >> >     Now that gnome-control-center uses systemd's date & time mechanism[1],
> > > > >> >     we don't need to ship our own mechanism for that purpose. This also
> > > > >> >     removes the last user of dbus-glib in gnome-settings-daemon [2].
> > > > >>
> > > > >> Are there plans to provide a systemd-compatible backend for those
> > > > >> systems that cannot run systemd?
> > > > >
> > > > > IIRC ubuntu did some work there:
> > > > >
> > > > > https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/desktop-p-systemd-packagekit
> > > > 
> > > > I guess the question from Ryan was more like: "what happens on systems
> > > > without an implementation of that D-Bus API which systemd provides?"
> > > 
> > > I guess we need to review, expand and announce the following again:
> > > https://live.gnome.org/PortabilityMatrix
> > 
> > I don't know who filled in the line for the date & time mechanism, but
> > there was never any OpenBSD support in the old mechanism.
> 
> True. I can confirm that (although work was ongoing).

I'm sure the work can be reused to "port" the systemd service to OpenBSD
(and port hostnamed too!).

> > I've updated the page to link to timedated from systemd now.
> 
> Thanks.
> 




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