On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 2:10 AM, Geert Hendrickx <ge...@hendrickx.be> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 16:00:52 +0200, Tom Gundersen wrote: >> * /etc/localtime may now be a symlink, and is not written to unless it is >> necessary. > > why not always make it a symlink, so updates to tzdata package are applied > immediatly and don't require a reboot? Is it for scenario's where /usr is > not available?
Yes. We have sort of given up on supporting booting with an unavailable /usr, but we don't want to break people's setups unnecessarily, so we'll keep the backwards compatibility for the time being. Cheers, Tom
