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From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>
To: Alec Warner <antarus@g.o>
Cc: Gentoo Dev <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] timezone configuration - why copying, not symlinking /etc/localtime ?
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2021 05:27:57
Message-Id: ueeg96ppt@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] timezone configuration - why copying, not symlinking /etc/localtime ? by Alec Warner
1 >>>>> On Sun, 21 Mar 2021, Alec Warner wrote:
2
3 >> Which doesn't imply that we deliberately break things.
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5 > Not sure I follow.. how is updating the handbook breaking anything?
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7 Both configurations (regular file and symlink) work just fine, and
8 sys-libs/timezone-data supports them. I don't see a good reason why we
9 would suddenly declare the regular file to be an invalid option.
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11 Ulrich

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