Date: Sun, 31 Mar 1996 22:31:00 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/tzsetup Makefile main.c tzmenu.c Message-ID: <199603312031.WAA00808@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <20041.828299250@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Mar 31, 96 11:07:30 am
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(Moved to -current, where this better fits.) As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > 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. Funny you should mention this -- vi needs /usr/share/misc/termcap as well. :-)) I hope we won't install termcap directly into /etc now... IMHO, dumping over the entire zoneinfo file into /etc defeats the idea of keeping the zoneinfo files in a separate directory, and it adds yet another file of binary junk to /etc. Anyway, this file is rather small, and i'm not willing to fight yet another absolutely sensefree argumentation war about it. So tell me folks whether my compromise proposal (re-establish the symlink if it's already been one, copy the file if it's been a regular file) would find a majority. This still leaves the question of which kind of /etc/localtime to install in the first place, but i'm sick of arguing here and simply copy over the file in this case. As long as i could have a symlink for myself, and one that won't be clobbered, it'll be ok for me. Funny btw., tzsetup was almost absolutely useless before. Now that it's at least working, people complain about how it works. :-)) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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