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Re: merged /usr considered harmful (was Re: Bits from the Technical Committee)



On Jul 18, Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> wrote:

> If a machine's /usr is not in sync with its /etc and /var, then it is likely
> to work incorrectly: at a minimum, asking dpkg which packages and versions
But in my experience (with shared-/usr containers) this works great as 
long as everything is aligned to the same major Debian release.

> are installed will give you an answer that does not match what is actually
> in /usr.
I link /var/lib/dpkg/ to somewhere in /usr/, and I think that this is 
something that we should do anyway.

-- 
ciao,
Marco

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