I have been told by upstream maintainers of one of my packages and by prominent developers of other distributions that supporting a standalone /usr is too much work and no other distribution worth mentioning does it (not Ubuntu, not Fedora, not SuSE). I know that Debian supports this, but I also know that maintaning forever large changes to packages for no real gain sucks. So, does anybody still see reasons to continue supporting a standalone /usr? If you do, please provide a detailed real-world use case. A partial list of invalid reasons is: - "I heard that this was popular in 1998" - "it's a longstanding tradition to support this" - "it's really useful on my 386 SX with a 40 MB hard disk" -- ciao, Marco
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