[tz] suggestion: split "backward" into "backward" and "deprecated"

Andrew Gierth andrew at tao11.riddles.org.uk
Tue May 5 03:00:18 UTC 2020


>>>>> "Philip" == Philip Paeps <philip at trouble.is> writes:

 Philip> Since you mention cost though: installing the backward zones
 Philip> increased the footprint of /usr/share/zoneinfo from about 1.8M
 Philip> to about 3.3M.

Really?

Installing "backward" should create only links, and therefore have
negligible effect on the size, the only real penalty being the extra
directories and entries which should be only a few blocks at most.

 Philip> Or they can trivially patch the build system not to install
 Philip> backward zones.

Well, there used to be a build option for that in the base system, but
somebody just took it out...

-- 
Andrew.


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