On 2020-05-05 11:00:18 (+0800), Andrew Gierth wrote:
Philip Paeps <philip@trouble.is> wrote:
Since you mention cost though: installing the backward zones increased the footprint of /usr/share/zoneinfo from about 1.8M 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.
It looks like we install the files rather than links. Or I've botched something on the test machine I looked at (which is not unlikely).
Or they can trivially patch the build system not to install backward zones.
Well, there used to be a build option for that in the base system, but somebody just took it out...
Easy enough to put back if someone yells about it. Philip -- Philip Paeps Senior Reality Engineer Alternative Enterprises