[OE-core] [PATCH 2/2] tzdata: install /etc/localtime alongside /etc/timezone

[Khem Raj]

On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 12:20 PM, Burton, Ross <ross.burton at intel.com> wrote:
>
> Sounds like they'll need to write a tool to run after every package
> operation and hunt out symlinks in /etc (and other top-levels) to
> files in /usr and turn those into copies.  Anything attempted on a
> per-package level will fail.

why cant you have symlinks across /usr and / all you have to do is
ignore the warning
about cross reference. We dont want to be in a situation where
everything is ending up
in /lib and /bin and so on. I am afraid thats where we are headed as
more and more patches are coming where we are moving libraries from
/usr/lib into /lib against the wishes of package owners who want them
to be in /usr. rest of linux
world is moving in opposite direction where /usr is just fine and
considered existing along with rest of basefile structure.

see

http://lwn.net/Articles/483921/

http://lwn.net/Articles/431185/


 More and more packages are now assuming /usr
and we would have to keep fixing them to support our view of world if
we go strict
about enforcing / and /usr separation there is unionfs and initramfs
and so many other techniques to solve this problem now a days we dont
have to differentiate between / and /usr