On Mon, 22 Mar 2021 09:59:11 +0100 Andreas Sturmlechner wrote:

>On Sonntag, 21. März 2021 08:58:34 CET James Le Cuirot wrote:
>> How about making emerge --config dynamic, copying if it's on a
>> different partition and symlinking if it's not? You can't accurately
>> determine the use of an initramfs but at least this is closer to what
>> we want.
>
>We will not be able to carry the revert for Qt5Core forever. I suspect
>it will be gone with Qt6, and then all we can do is ewarn users that
>their clock will be broken if their localtime is not a symlink.
>
>Keeping it as a file would mean convincing upstream(s) that the
>symlink is a systemd-ism, not a standard.
>
>Regards

With enough motivation we can carry that revert for a very long time. I
know that because I still carry reverts in my udev packages from when
it was devoured by systemd.

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Lars Wendler
Gentoo package maintainer
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