[oe] RFC: drop timezones from OE

[Lorn Potter]

On Saturday 15 December 2007, Rolf Leggewie 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.)


The timezones from opie are at least 4 years old and out of date. You can 
safely discard this package/dependency.



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Lorn 'ljp' Potter
Software Engineer, Systems Group, MES, Trolltech