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| From: | Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm@g.o> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-dev@l.g.o | ||
| Cc: | James Le Cuirot <chewi@g.o> | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-dev] timezone configuration - why copying, not symlinking /etc/localtime ? | ||
| Date: | Mon, 22 Mar 2021 08:59:45 | ||
| Message-Id: | 24870090.1r3eYUQgxm@tuxbook | ||
| In Reply to: | Re: [gentoo-dev] timezone configuration - why copying, not symlinking /etc/localtime ? by James Le Cuirot |
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| 1 | On Sonntag, 21. März 2021 08:58:34 CET James Le Cuirot wrote: |
| 2 | > How about making emerge --config dynamic, copying if it's on a |
| 3 | > different partition and symlinking if it's not? You can't accurately |
| 4 | > determine the use of an initramfs but at least this is closer to what |
| 5 | > we want. |
| 6 | |
| 7 | We will not be able to carry the revert for Qt5Core forever. I suspect it will |
| 8 | be gone with Qt6, and then all we can do is ewarn users that their clock will |
| 9 | be broken if their localtime is not a symlink. |
| 10 | |
| 11 | Keeping it as a file would mean convincing upstream(s) that the symlink is a |
| 12 | systemd-ism, not a standard. |
| 13 | |
| 14 | Regards |
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| Re: [gentoo-dev] timezone configuration - why copying, not symlinking /etc/localtime ? | Lars Wendler <polynomial-c@g.o> |