Re: Duplicate recipes in meta-oe

[Philip Balister <philip@balister.org>]

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