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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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