[oe] RFC: drop timezones from OE

[Matthias Hentges]

Am Freitag, den 14.12.2007, 15:08 +0100 schrieb Rolf Leggewie:
> 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
> 
+1

It is an ancient Opie relict that should have died a long time ago.

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