On Thu, 22 Dec 2011 10:35:21 +0100, Reinhard Tartler <siretart@debian.org> wrote: > On Do, Dez 22, 2011 at 10:14:23 (CET), Philip Hands wrote: ... > > I have a feeling that most of the people that care about the separation > > of / and /usr only really care on systems that don't need the packages > > that are going to have that dependency, and for the few overlaps that > > there are, the effort would then be focused where it's needed. > > Can you provide examples of packages that can't work with both > configurations? It would be sad if this configuration choice, which is > impossible change without reinstalling the system, would restrict the > user what packages he can install. No, I'm afraid I cannot -- that's my biggest issue with the whole subject -- people are arguing for a change I don't like without ever making explicit the reason they think they need it. I have a suspicion that all the packages are ones I don't really care about, but I'm not sure, because somewhere down the line I can imagine that as a result of this policy change some idiot will feel justified in adding a dependency on avahi-daemon to coreutils ;-) FYI I'm on the status quo side, but was trying to come up with a workable compromise, rather than just whining about it :-) I agree that a more useful infrastructure for determining whether a package is suitable for installing on this particular machine, in it's current configuration, would be better than my hacky virtual package idea. As for it being a shame that a reinstall would be required, I think I'd rather have that than have my system rendered unbootable when I had the silly idea of giving the latest Gnome a try on one of my servers, for example, and having a message saying that I need to shuffle the partitions around first would at least let me decide whether I could be bothered. It's not as though the proposal doesn't require me to do that repartitioning already (if I happen to have such a setup), but presumably the warning would be in the wheezy release notes, or left as an unpleasant surprise if I'd not bothered to read them. Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] http://www.hands.com/ |-| HANDS.COM Ltd. http://www.uk.debian.org/ |(| 10 Onslow Gardens, South Woodford, London E18 1NE ENGLAND
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