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

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Thu, 2012-01-19 at 17:49 -0500, Ryan Lortie wrote:
> hi Bastien,
> 
> On Thu, 2012-01-19 at 22:38 +0000, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > commit 27fa171efe4179c0a42ec79e0dc501077f042a08
> > Author: Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>
> > Date:   Thu Jan 19 22:33:21 2012 +0000
> > 
> >     datetime: Remove datetime D-Bus mechanism
> >     
> >     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?

No, the distributions/systems that choose not to use systemd will have
to provide a compatible D-Bus service.

It can be something "extracted" from systemd, or something new and
revived from the old date and time mechanism, but it won't be something
we support and maintain in gnome-settings-daemon.

FWIW, the old backend supported Fedora, SUSE and Debian systems, nothing
else. So the portability problem would have happened on other systems
(such as the *BSDs or Solaris), whether or not we made those changes.

And I'm glad I have 3000 less lines code to maintain.

Cheers