Hi all, why do we *copy* the timezone file to /etc/localtime, instead of symlinking it like everyone else?
1) Our handbook recommends: echo "Europe/Brussels" > /etc/timezone emerge --config sys-libs/timezone-data which is effectively doing echo "Europe/Brussels" > /etc/timezone cp -f /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Brussels /etc/localtime 2) Most other distros seem to just do ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Brussels /etc/localtime and use the link content as timezone name (this is also what is required by systemd). Does anyone remember the reason for 1) ? Or is that lost in history? Cheers, Andreas PS See also bug https://bugs.gentoo.org/737914 , where support for 1) was removed from Qt. -- Andreas K. Hüttel dilfri...@gentoo.org Gentoo Linux developer (council, toolchain, base-system, perl, libreoffice)
