On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 05:32:13PM +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote: > On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 12:19:25PM +0200, Philipp Kern wrote: > > Fedora updates are different. (And so are Ubuntu updates, if one considers > > that it's possible to provide fixup scripts to update-manager pre-upgrade.) > > As long as we're supporting upgrades through plain apt, that's going to > > be hard. Especially if you have non-distro packages installed that need > > to be migrated as well, with the tracking information updated. > Maybe the issue here shouldn't be changing the default. After all there > is a quite vocal opposition to such a step. I fail to see consensus in > the recent mails without even contributing a personal opinion here. > So really what does it take to e.g. move /bin and stuff to /usr? Did > anyone try that? Where is that documented? What problems did occur? It takes initramfs support for correctly mounting /usr from the initramfs. Until we have that, all the should/shouldn't, do it by default, etc. discussions are pointless. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slangasek@ubuntu.com vorlon@debian.org
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