Bug#914897: debootstrap, buster: Please disabled merged /usr by default
On Sun, Dec 02, 2018 at 07:54:39PM +0000, Simon McVittie wrote:
> I would encourage anyone with questions about the behaviour of merged and
> unmerged /usr systems to try them, either by building one chroot, container
> or VM with merged /usr and one without, or by building a chroot, container
> or VM with unmerged /usr, copying it, and installing usrmerge in the copy.
That would give me an impression about how things are today.
> The answer to your question is that non-/usr-merged systems behave the
> same way they always have: binaries end up wherever the source package
> chooses to put them when it builds the .deb (typically determined by
> where they appear under debian/tmp).
The next debhelper change might choose to give / instead of /usr as a
target directory by default, moving hundreds of megabytes from /usr to /
over time. My question was about the distant future, and not the current
snapshot of things.
And, it has been satisfactorily answered by now.
Greetings
Marc
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