Le 05/03/2013 10:56, g....@free.fr a écrit : > > ----- Mail original ----- >> De: "Bruce Dubbs"<bruce.du...@gmail.com> >> À: "ALFS Discussion and Development List"<alfs-discuss@linuxfromscratch.org> >> Envoyé: Dimanche 3 Mars 2013 18:36:06 >> Objet: Re: separating tzdata and XML::Parser scriptlets >> >> Pierre Labastie wrote: >>> Although Armin seems to think otherwise, tzdata and >>> XML::Parser are not parts of respectively glibc and >>> Perl. So, if doing package management, they should be >>> packaged separately. >> For many years, tzdata was embedded into glibc. It is really data for >> glibc to use with the zic command installed with glibc. I don't think >> it makes sense to separate this from glibc. >> > Yes, that was the past. > Now, there is no reason but history to continue that way to build both > together. > glibc and tzdata are released completely separately and it is simply easier > to manage them separately. > I have done both. It is very convenient to just rebuild a new tzdata without > rebuilding glibc. > I understood that the LFS approach is to consider tzdata installation as some sort of configuration, rather than as a package by itself. Surely, it should not be included in a glibc package.
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