Re: deprecating /usr as a standalone filesystem?

[Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>]

Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> writes:

> On Thu, May 07 2009, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> 
> > Le jeudi 07 mai 2009 à 11:02 +1000, Ben Finney a écrit :
> >> Those who want a read-only ‘/usr’ don't seriously try to leave it
> >> read-only while installing or upgrading packages, do they?
> 
> ,----[ Excerpt from /etc/apt/apt.conf ]
> | DPkg 
> | {
> |    // Auto re-mounting of a readonly /usr
> |    Pre-Invoke  {"mount -o remount,rw /usr";};
> |    Post-Invoke {"mount -o remount,ro /usr";};
> | };
> `----

Exactly. So this is *not* “leave /usr read-only while installing or
upgrading packages”. Thanks for providing another case in point.

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