Re: support for merged /usr in Debian
Hallo,
* Daniel Reurich [Mon, Jan 04 2016, 12:46:46AM]:
> On 04/01/16 00:25, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> > On Jan 03, Eric Valette <eric.valette@free.fr> wrote:
> >
> >> The debian installer should first loudly warn that having a separated / and
> >> /usr may break things in the future but not forbid it. With that in place,
> > This is not true: you just need to use an initramfs.
> > "I have always done this in a different way" is not a valid use case,
> > sorry.
>
> Really, just because the use case isn't one you understand doesn't mean
> it should be entirely ignored. Sure there are corner cases that will
What's the use case here? Something with /usr as read-only remote-fs
with a local mutable / ? Why cannot you just identify the few spots
which need to be writable and do some bind-mounting on top of them?
> always be fragile, but that's not the issue here. The issue at hand is
> the provision of tooling that fundamentally violates the FHS by changing
> the location of where binaries and libraries are located, and only
> because of sloppy workmanship that has allowed packages in that will
> break systems if we don't adopt these massive changes.
For me, sloppy workmanship is building a special setup in a crude way
while not being able to adapt it to a slightly modified base
configuration, considering all tools we have nowadays. It's not like we
just entered Y2K...
Regards,
Eduard.
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