Comment # 3 on bug 1094773 from William Brown

Okay, from your comments I understand the issue now. It seems we have a
difference in our understanding of what the base container image should be. You
have accurately stated the container is "the minimum possible to allow zypper
to operate". I understood the base container to be "the minimal system in which
I can deploy an application into". Having had experience with other distro
container bases which contain timezone data, this was my assumption.

So I would still propose that timezone be included. Of course, the "just one
more thing" trap should be avoided, but timezone is universally helpful to
deployments (and appears to be the standard for other distro containers).

If you feel that the role should only be to provide zypper support, then feel
free to close this issue. But it may be good to "document" the intent of the
container's configuration somewhere. Alternately, please consider that it's
counter intuitive as a design in my view, and that the minimal container should
contain a minimal supportive application platform IE zypper + key libraries.

Thank you for your time,