From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from starfish.geekisp.com ([216.168.135.166]) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1RuUbT-0001iC-AK for openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org; Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:51:55 +0100 Received: (qmail 20181 invoked by uid 1003); 6 Feb 2012 19:43:53 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.43.128?) (philip@opensdr.com@32.165.15.243) by mail.geekisp.com with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 6 Feb 2012 19:43:53 -0000 Message-ID: <4F302D77.7030902@balister.org> Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:43:51 -0500 From: Philip Balister User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.24) Gecko/20111108 Fedora/3.1.16-1.fc14 Thunderbird/3.1.16 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer References: <1408084.uBj8QddilE@helios> <1328543751.14363.11.camel@phil-desktop> In-Reply-To: <1328543751.14363.11.camel@phil-desktop> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 Subject: Re: Duplicate recipes in meta-oe X-BeenThere: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Id: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:51:55 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit On 02/06/2012 10:55 AM, Phil Blundell wrote: > On Mon, 2012-02-06 at 15:39 +0000, Paul Eggleton wrote: >> I talked to Koen at FOSDEM and apparently he prefers having a symlink rather >> than a copy for the timezone file. I can't express an opinion one way or >> another but it sounds like this one aspect still needs to be resolved - should >> this be selectable? > > I guess this is all bound up with the "/usr on a separate partition" > thing. If your position is that the root filesystem is meant to work > without /usr mounted then having /etc/localtime be a symlink > into /usr/share is probably not going to fly. Conversely, one were to > take the view that any reasonable system in the 21st century is going to > have / anḍ /usr on the same device, making it be a symlink would be a > fine idea. > > I think probably the right answer is to make "1970s-usr" be a > DISTRO_FEATURE and then the timezone recipes (and others) can adapt > themselves accordingly. Does anyone use a system where /usr is on a separate partition? Philip