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Re: Aranym installation, was Re: Centris 650 Debian 10 SID Installation



Hi Adrian,

On Fri, Jun 21, 2019 at 3:36 PM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
<glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
> > I now understand that the latest trend is that a separate /usr is not
> > recommended.  And it's clear that most major Linux distributions have
> > become dependent on systemd.  That's neither good nor bad; the GPL will
> > allow people to do whatever they want.  I have to say that I was a
> > little troubled by the supremely smug attitude in the above link.
>
> Well, is there actually a valid reason to have a separate /usr? I don't
> see any.

Not anymore, given the size of modern hard drives.
It was when 240 MB was considered a very expensive hard drive.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

-- 
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
                                -- Linus Torvalds


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