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

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

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.

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