[RULE] Other feedback on slinky-0.3.94

Michael Fratoni mfratoni at tuxfan.homeip.net
Sun Jun 1 05:57:37 EEST 2003


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On Saturday 31 May 2003 03:49 am, M. Fioretti wrote:
> Random notes:
>
> I've noted that there is no timezone selection, and that switchdesk is
> installed. For the first issue, it's probably better to add a question
> (similar to that asking for locales).

switchdesk is included only to satisfy a dependency for xinitrc.
I'd rather install a small package then leave an unmet dependency.

Timezones are somewhat complicated. I hate to add another listing of many 
possible options. Have a look at /usr/share/zoneinfo/ and it's 
subdirectories....
It doesn't halp that the busybox shell (ash clone) lacks a "select" 
builtin. At least then I could generate a menu list.

However, for anyone who is installing Red Hat 9 and either XFree or TinyX 
(which pulls in XFree) I've added a package option for date/time config.
The user can run redhat-config-date and set the timezone. For others, it's 
a matter of creating/editing /etc/sysconfig/clock, and creating a symlink 
from /etc/localtime to /usr/share/zoneinfo/{somezone_file}

> In the second case, probably we can remove switchdesk, but this is
> something very low priority, of course.

I'd rather leave it at present. Unless we repackage xinitrc and include it 
on the .iso.

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