May 5, 2020
3 a.m.
"Philip" == Philip Paeps <philip@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.