Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> writes: > On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 03:08:09PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: >>I disagree both that simple testing (that you could do with a KVM >>snapshot as well) would be hard and I disagree that the benefits of >>merged-/usr would be minor. > > Nobody has thus far pointed out a single benefit to someone merging usr > on an ordinary system. I'll bite. I have systems that were installed ages ago, which now have insufficiently large root partitions. Some of them I've gone through the rather delicate procedure of resizing partitions, some of which contain LVM, to make things fit. Some of them I've been able to move / onto LVM (with the side benefit of being able to combine / and /boot into one, and thus make it big enough to have a copy of grml on there). Some are now populated with a lot of symlinks to other partitions in a painful attempt to keep them small enough to be useful. Installing usrmerge seems like a way to restore sanity to the latter case. Any of the above fixes requires one to do things that can easily result in a trashed system if you do things in the wrong order, or get the details wrong, so are not for the faint-hearted. BTW whenever anyone says something like "Nobody" or "Never" in these discussions, they are just asking to be contradicted. I'm pretty sure that people have been pointing out advantages of various sorts for some time, but that you have your filters turned up high enough that none of them have managed to lodge in your memory. (I cannot be bothered to actually come up with a citation, because it's pretty clear that doing so would make no difference). Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| http://www.hands.com/ http://ftp.uk.debian.org/ |(| Hugo-Klemm-Strasse 34, 21075 Hamburg, GERMANY
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