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

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Hello,

On Sun, Jul 18, 2021 at 04:31:11PM -0400, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote:
> My personal opinion is that Debian is going into a mostly "we got the
> best idea in the world but forgot that not everyone implement things the
> same way".

I recommend understanding the issue before putting forth an opinion.

> I currently have a different partition for my /usr and this has been the
> case since the end of 1990s when I started on Linux. Maybe I'm wrong but
> I like it this way.
> 
> Will the merge-usr cause myself problem ?

No. Not as long as you use an initramfs created by any of the
supported Debian tools like initramfs-tools or dracut, which you
will do unless you have gone out of your way to do something
different.

And regardless of merged-/usr, /usr on separate partition has not
been supported in Debian without an initramfs since the stretch
release in 2017.

I think all of this is quite clearly explained in:

    https://salsa.debian.org/md/usrmerge/raw/master/debian/README.Debian

which is linked from:

    https://wiki.debian.org/UsrMerge

If you think it's not then you should probably raise a bug against
the usrmerge package with your suggested edits/clarifications.

Andy

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Re: merged /usr considered harmful (was Re: Bits from the Technical  Committee) Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside <debian@polynamaude.com> - 2021-07-18 22:40 +0200
  Re: merged /usr considered harmful (was Re: Bits from the Technical  Committee) Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2021-07-18 23:10 +0200
    Re: merged /usr considered harmful (was Re: Bits from the Technical  Committee) Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside <debian@polynamaude.com> - 2021-07-19 03:20 +0200
  Re: merged /usr considered harmful (was Re: Bits from the Technical  Committee) Svante Signell <svante.signell@gmail.com> - 2021-07-18 23:50 +0200
    Re: merged /usr considered harmful (was Re: Bits from the Technical  Committee) Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-07-19 01:20 +0200
      Re: merged /usr considered harmful (was Re: Bits from the Technical  Committee) Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2021-07-19 01:50 +0200
      Re: merged /usr considered harmful (was Re: Bits from the Technical  Committee) Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2021-07-19 08:20 +0200
    Re: merged /usr considered harmful (was Re: Bits from the Technical  Committee) Jonathan Dowland <jon+debian-user@dow.land> - 2021-07-19 12:40 +0200

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