From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail-ee0-f47.google.com ([74.125.83.47]) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1T6rCm-0006D0-8W for openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org; Thu, 30 Aug 2012 00:57:48 +0200 Received: by eekb57 with SMTP id b57so396128eek.6 for ; Wed, 29 Aug 2012 15:45:33 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; bh=GIpkN0X1FwXIDa9lnbH3y3tZrwQm8yxPDZ5n2fwLOpc=; b=1KIJ93rJ7/9gyJxM+kmX5Lf9KQ+N5tk28IZAXGl2V43MXd7r7VzQvVtBKahrtc0f/R mlUWJyNDBA6w8RZQ+u8H1zhn/eTMlfJt5eTq3qKfyKaw+j3D4Z6jyfTGuvNRlkKaaal/ 60J9sa9JosRYMf+U6VeBIR/v3CnUr9zn1ifnX/qOdL6kFV3ZXPO2CPjpeyAM+YGLlYVn 0yYS141sdOvNAsR9XQ0iXP/s0mQ8L9ESN+8UEHgM7+rKS33Y2kwTkTL9DiMb3GXClb5h 1sj9BwRsuu7G1++MUziE4FaiA8ohfQaysLr63MUH3T/HIvKFjh27aPXKotMU+C7/fLPV Q1Pg== Received: by 10.14.218.134 with SMTP id k6mr4122968eep.14.1346280333674; Wed, 29 Aug 2012 15:45:33 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.14.2.5 with HTTP; Wed, 29 Aug 2012 15:45:03 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1346278937.4396.57.camel@x121e.pbcl.net> References: <4976204.OdG2Ohk3KU@helios> <1346267538.4396.38.camel@x121e.pbcl.net> <1346278937.4396.57.camel@x121e.pbcl.net> From: Khem Raj Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2012 15:45:03 -0700 Message-ID: To: Phil Blundell Cc: Paul Eggleton , Koen Kooi , openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] tzdata: install /etc/localtime alongside /etc/timezone X-BeenThere: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list List-Id: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2012 22:57:48 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 3:22 PM, Phil Blundell wrote: > On Wed, 2012-08-29 at 22:50 +0100, Burton, Ross wrote: >> I'm curious if the people who want / and /usr on separate partitions >> that Phil refers to are a hypothetical group of people, or people who >> can chime in with their opinion. > > As far as I know, only Intel have ever expressed any real interest in > having this feature work. My recollection is that there are some > supposed "carrier grade" systems where this is, for whatever reason, a > requirement. whatever the reasons are. Its not clear what are reasons these systems can not use techniques available now a days for creating new systems. I can understand if OE had a legacy of it but seemingly its a feature being added. I see that as an exception and not norm and we are treating as norm. There's been some previous discussion on the list, see for > example: > > http://lists.linuxtogo.org/pipermail/openembedded-core/2012-February/017360.html > > and the follow-ups to that message. > > p. > >