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From: Lars Wendler <polynomial-c@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] timezone configuration - why copying, not symlinking /etc/localtime ?
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2021 20:18:47
Message-Id: 20210322211832.1e6896df@abudhabi.paradoxon.rec
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] timezone configuration - why copying, not symlinking /etc/localtime ? by Andreas Sturmlechner
1 On Mon, 22 Mar 2021 09:59:11 +0100 Andreas Sturmlechner wrote:
2
3 >On Sonntag, 21. März 2021 08:58:34 CET James Le Cuirot wrote:
4 >> How about making emerge --config dynamic, copying if it's on a
5 >> different partition and symlinking if it's not? You can't accurately
6 >> determine the use of an initramfs but at least this is closer to what
7 >> we want.
8 >
9 >We will not be able to carry the revert for Qt5Core forever. I suspect
10 >it will be gone with Qt6, and then all we can do is ewarn users that
11 >their clock will be broken if their localtime is not a symlink.
12 >
13 >Keeping it as a file would mean convincing upstream(s) that the
14 >symlink is a systemd-ism, not a standard.
15 >
16 >Regards
17
18 With enough motivation we can carry that revert for a very long time. I
19 know that because I still carry reverts in my udev packages from when
20 it was devoured by systemd.
21
22 --
23 Lars Wendler
24 Gentoo package maintainer
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