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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/tzsetup Makefile main.c tzmenu.c 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 31 Mar 1996 18:22:18 +0200."
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Date: Sun, 31 Mar 1996 11:07:30 -0800
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> We have been shipping the system with the symlink for a long time, and
> nobody was complaining.
> 
> I don't back this out, the previous version was totally buggy and
> happily clobbered files under /usr/share/zoneinfo/ in case the
> existing /etc/localtime has already been a symlink.

I think this is reasonable.  If I'm running single-user with nothing
but root mounted, I *expect* some things not to work quite right.  I
can't run vi very nicely without my /var mounted either, for that
matter, and I usually find this far more objectionable than the
timezone being set wrong.  Am I suggesting that we break vi in order
to make such a weird case work?  Of course not, and I think the same
can be said for localtime as a symlink.  I'm backing Joerg on this one.

						Jordan