Runtime dependency for plasma 6.7 - systemd/timedatex/openrc-settingsd

[Nate Graham]

Thanks for the heads-up, David.

Do you think this is worth mentioning on 
https://community.kde.org/Distributions/Packaging_Recommendations?

Nate



On 5/18/26 4:34 AM, David Edmundson wrote:
> As a heads up that, the date and time KCM dropped having a (broken)
> custom path to enable NTP/set the time and now only has a timedated
> compatible backend.
> 
> Suitable timedated interface providers include:
>       - systemd
>       - timedatex
>       - openrc-settingsd
> 
> Without any of these available the user gets a runtime error if they
> try to manually adjust time settings.
> 
> For the vast majority of distributions this will not require any
> action, but some might want to check.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> David