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On Tue, 17 Jan 2012 13:41:48 +0100, Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote:

> >> Symlinking is not recommended as it breaks when /usr is on a
> >> separate filesystem. The file should be copied instead.
> >>   
> > 
> > Are you sure you're not confusing that with hardlinking?
> > 
> > Because AFAIK symlinking is the only linking that can cross
> > filesystem borders.

It can... if the filesystem is mounted at the time. AFAIR this causes
problem setting the timezone at boot time.

>  Symlinking works (over filesystem borders, too, Pandu is right) and
> it even "autoupdates" localtime when (why ever) something in zoneinfo
> changes...

The localtime files change all the time, look at how often timezone-data
is updated. Everyone some bright spark comes up with another clever way
of squeezing 25 hours into a day, his country's DST rules change. That's
why openrc has a setting to manage this automatically for you.


- -- 
Neil Bothwick

Make like a tree and leave.
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