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/etc/localtime (was: Re: ca-certificates symlinks out of /etc)
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| Henrique de Moraes Holschuh 2006-10-31, 7:27 pm |
| On Tue, 31 Oct 2006, Alex Pennace wrote:
> I'm surprised your report missed one of the most established
> configuration symlinks of them all: /etc/localtime. I'm pointing that
> out in particular because it has been around for as long as I can
> remember, and serves its configuration function by pointing somewhere
> under /usr/share.
That symlink is a bug from the very depths of foul-smelling lands, which we
have fortunately squished for Sid and Etch. It is gone, and good riddance
to it. May the Grue feast on the innards of anyone trying to bring that bug
back to life.
/etc/rc*.d/* in a sysv-rc system is a much better example of "confsymlinks",
and a lot of people don't like them at all :-)
> All these symlinks allow programs to easily grab data and
> configuration in one step. A program can open /etc/localtime and know
> it is getting an up-to-date timezone file for the local timezone.
Yes, it is also shortsighted like all heck to symlink data out of / when you
need it available in early userspace initialization, period.
But this has nothing to do with ca-certificates, or its design decisions.
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"One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
Henrique Holschuh
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| Alex Pennace 2006-10-31, 7:27 pm |
| On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 05:22:27PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Tue, 31 Oct 2006, Alex Pennace wrote:
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> That symlink is a bug from the very depths of foul-smelling lands, which we
> have fortunately squished for Sid and Etch. It is gone, and good riddance
> to it. May the Grue feast on the innards of anyone trying to bring that bug
> back to life.
I failed to check an etch system when I wrote the referenced
message.
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> Yes, it is also shortsighted like all heck to symlink data out of / when you
> need it available in early userspace initialization, period.
I see that now. Local time is important. But 95% of the other
configuration symlinks are useful.
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