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Re: Stuff from /bin, /sbin, /lib depending on /usr/lib libraries



On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 01:15:32AM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> Fellow developers, please do not waste your time moving stuff to /lib: 
> it's a task both endless and futile because nowadays it is clear that 
> the upstream maintainers of various stuff do not support a standalone 
> /usr mounted by the init scripts: if /usr is a standalone file system 
> then it must be mounted in the initramfs.
> So let's just fix initramfs-tools and be done with this forever.

Upstream maintainers of various stuff also refuse to provide man pages.
Debian does not always do what upstream wants.

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