Svante Signell dijo [Wed, Dec 05, 2018 at 02:03:19PM +0100]: > > If we keep merged-/usr as default then we can /recommend/ people to > > install usrmerge to switch to merged-/usr; reducing the difference > > between newly-installed and existing setups is a good idea IMHO. I > > think I filed a report for this two years ago. > > > > Maybe we should also mention somewhere that it might be useful to not > > switch build environments (yet). > > How about this case: > > - Make as default non merged-/usr for all buildds. > - Make a choice of non merged-/usr or merged-/usr in the installer. > - Users wanting merged-/usr install the usrmerge package and convert to merged- > /usr. > > - We have two alternatives here: > 1) For those not wanting merged-/usr: > All is fine. > > 2) For those having merged-/usr installed: > Re-run usrmerge to convert all newly installed packages to merged-/usr. > Is this possible or is installing that package a install-once-only? AFAICT, this would mostly cover the issues, at least as far as I understand them. There is still one extra point: Computers used by Debian contributors to build their packages on. If I build my package on a merged-/usr system, it might end up breaking in non-merged systems. Throwaway binary uploads seems like a safe bet for this issue. Now - Are we ready to do it?
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