On Mon, Jun 26, 2023 at 04:54:00PM +0100, Aoife Moloney wrote:
- Other developers: Some packages need to change their spec files from
`Requires: tzdata` to `Recommends: tzdata`. It would be beneficial if all packages switched in this way, but it is not required. Supporting optional tzdata installation for as many workloads as possible allows those workloads to minimize their container image size. List of packages which need to be changed:
- glibc (glibc-common)
There are packages that rely on the glibc->glibc-common->tzdata dependency. The one I know is chrony, which in the default configuration needs the "right/UTC" timezone to get the TAI-UTC offset. I suspect there are other packages that will need to add Recommends or Requires.