On 11/19/2012 09:09 PM, Christian Boltz wrote:
Hello,
Am Montag, 19. November 2012 schrieb Dominique Leuenberger a.k.a DimStar:
Looking at the current package in Factory [0], these package depend on timezone ( in either way):
NetworkManager-gnome gnome-panel libicu49 ntp php5 qemu yast2-country kiwi-desc-0emboot kiwi-desc-vmxboot-requires kiwi-desc-netboot-requires
Now, the fact that yast2-country depends on timesone, I'd guess that about every install (with yast) should get timezone installed... If you don't have yast2-country, I'd be wondering why this was no longer installed.
I'd say it in another way: "yast2-country explains why so few packages depend on timezone" ;-) There are probably some packages that need it, but don't have a dependency on it because it's installed everywhere nevertheless.
The most prominent example might be:
# strings /lib64/libc.so.6 |grep zoneinfo /usr/share/zoneinfo
I'm not a glibc expert, but I'd say the above is a strong indicator that glibc should require zoneinfo...
glibc needs /etc/localtime, the rest is optional. If you want "TZ=Europe/Berlin date" to work, you need the zoneinfo files. With optional I mean: glibc will work and not crash. If you need to show your time in several timezones, you have to install the timezone package. So, a strong recommends? Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger aj@{suse.com,opensuse.org} Twitter/Identica: jaegerandi SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GF: Jeff Hawn,Jennifer Guild,Felix Imendörffer,HRB16746 (AG Nürnberg) GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org