[OE-core] Duplicate recipes in meta-oe

Koen Kooi koen at dominion.thruhere.net
Mon Feb 6 16:07:28 UTC 2012


Op 6 feb. 2012, om 16:55 heeft Phil Blundell het volgende geschreven:

> 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.

That was my reasoning as well.

regards,

Koen



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