Re: [PATCH 2/2] tzdata: install /etc/localtime alongside /etc/timezone

[Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Fri, 2012-08-31 at 15:29 +0100, Phil Blundell wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-08-29 at 23:22 +0100, Phil Blundell wrote:
> > As far as I know, only Intel have ever expressed any real interest in
> > having this feature work.  My recollection is that there are some
> > supposed "carrier grade" systems where this is, for whatever reason, a
> > requirement. 
> 
> None of the carrier-grade people (or indeed any others) seem to have
> spoken up in favour of a separate /usr in the past 3 days or so, which
> does rather suggest that nobody actually cares about it.  
> 
> Maybe the TSC would like to reconsider whether this is in fact a
> worthwhile thing to go on trying to support in oe-core or whether it
> should just assume that / and ${prefix} will be the same filesystem.

I think the people in question are at a conference at the moment and
dealing with a few issues so they fact they haven't spoken up doesn't
surprise me.

I'm fine with merging the symlink change. As others have mentioned, if
it is an issue, a script to turn the links into copies can be written
relatively easily.

I don't think dropping support for / and ${prefix} makes sense as long
as it doesn't excessively hurt us. It is up to users to step up and help
maintain the use cases they care about and so far, they have done this.
So I think the position the TSC took is the correct one. Certainly we
can revisit it but its not going to stop this patch going in for
example.

Cheers,

Richard