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From: Nils Freydank <holgersson@××××××.de>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] timezone configuration - why copying, not symlinking /etc/localtime ?
Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2021 16:04:19
Message-Id: 20210320160406.fauftblwp7463cv6@pygoscelis.ansernet
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] timezone configuration - why copying, not symlinking /etc/localtime ? by "Andreas K. Huettel"
1 Hi Andreas,
2
3 Am Samstag, den 20.03.2021 um 16:37:23 Uhr +0100 schrieb "Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge@g.o>:
4 > [...]
5 > Does anyone remember the reason for 1) ? Or is that lost in history?
6
7 I just quote comment 3 from the linked bug https://bugs.gentoo.org/737914#c3:
8 "copying the zonefile to /etc/localtime is a good idea, as /usr could be on a separate partition. How about creating the
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10 /etc/TZ -> /etc/timezone softlink by default?"
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12 In my opinion so many tools tend to expect an always-mounted /usr that the
13 symlink would not do any harm. FWIW I use symlinks on a handfull Gentoo machines
14 and had no issues in years, but I'm pretty close to mainstream (amd64, glibc,
15 OpenRC).
16
17 Best regards,
18 Nils

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