On Mon, Dec 02, 2013 at 09:28:23AM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > ]] Ian Jackson > > It's not clear to me from the discussion there exactly what systemd > > upstream's position on this kind of thing is. > > Can someone point us, for example, to a statement by the systemd > > upstreams about their support for separate /usr (or their non-support > > for it) ? > http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2013-November/014797.html > So they see it as pointless, but will be supported for a long time. Note that the original complaint in the samba upstream discussion was about hard-coding of paths to system utilities, which a) is not portable between distributions and b) contradicts Debian policy. So systemd upstream may support separate /usr, but that doesn't change the fact that there are still portability issues when one starts writing systemd units. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slangasek@ubuntu.com vorlon@debian.org
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