[oe] RFC: drop timezones from OE

[Hans Henry von Tresckow]

On Dec 14, 2007 6:08 AM, Rolf Leggewie <no2spam at nospam.arcornews.de> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> it seems that there are two, conflicting packages in OE providing
> timezone data: tzdata from glibc and timezones from opie/handhelds.
>
> I think it would make sense to drop timezones and only have the timezone
> data from glibc as this eliminates problems where one wants to install
> package A that depends on tzdata but you also want package B where the
> dependency is declared for timezones.  Currently, you can only install
> either A or B.
>
> If there is consensus on this, I would take care that OE metadata is
> updated accordingly (drop timezones folder, replace occurences of
> timezones in DEPENDS with tzdata, etc.)
>
> Regards
>
> Rolf
>
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>
+1 from me. I have been using tzdata for almost a year now.


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Henry von Tresckow (hvontres)