Re: support for merged /usr in Debian
On Fri, Jan 01, 2016 at 01:29:09PM +0100, Simon Richter wrote:
> On 01.01.2016 12:23, Ansgar Burchardt wrote:
>
> > Is there any use case that requires supporting unmerged systems?
>
> Booting without an initrd, which is important for resource-constrained
> embedded systems.
>
> [reasons for !initrd]
No one is proposing dropping support for no-initrd in the general case, just
for separate /usr. Legacy systems with such a split would indeed require an
initrd, but those are unlikely to be embedded (cf Maemo where /usr was
inadequate).
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