Re: gnome-control-center datetime problem

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Sat, 2014-05-10 at 07:39 +0000, John Frankish wrote:
> > On Fri, 2014-05-09 at 14:18 +0000, John Frankish wrote:
> > > Thanks, but what would be an equivalent API I could use?
> >
> > Hey John,
> >
> > I think you should report a bug to the Linux distribution you use. If they ship
> > GNOME without systemd, they are responsible for implementing the
> > timedated D-Bus interface themselves (which should be relatively easy).
> > timedated is a distribution-agnostic interface for changing the timezone, so it
> > makes sense for GNOME to depend on it.
> >
> > gnome-control-center also depends on the localed D-Bus interface for the
> > region panel*, and the hostnamed D-Bus interface for changing hostname in
> > the Details and Sharing panel. These are all typically provided by systemd,
> > and if your distribution is missing one it's likely missing the others as well.
> Thanks for the reply.
>
> Since the distro I'm using - tinycorelinux - strives to be small,
> lightweight and efficient, it does not use systemd.

That's funny, because the efficiency is one of systemd's strong points,
and it's being used in plenty of embedded situations.

> I've compiled a (mostly) running gnome-3.10.x from source to see how
> things work and this was one of the few things that didn't work.
>
> If timedate depends on systemd, then maybe this applet should not be
> compiled if systemd is not present?

It's a run-time dependency, and a hard dependency.