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

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On Thu, 2021-07-22 at 14:04 +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> On Jul 22, "Barak A. Pearlmutter" <bap@debian.org> wrote:
> 
> > People seem pretty worked up over this, but honestly I'm not
> > understanding why.
> Because they are scared by new things, hence they oppose merged-/usr 
> (and systemd before that, and udev even before...).
> But since they cannot admit that, then they need to rationalize by 
> inflating the effects of minor bugs or usability issues.
> 
> Basically all new systems are installed with merged-/usr since Debian 
> 10, and since obviously this has not caused noticeable issues (or at 
> least, any which could not be fixed) then we must treat with skepticism 
> any such claims.

Not only all Debian systems, but all Ubuntu systems since 2019 (iirc)
and other derivatives too. Still waiting for the sky to fall.

-- 
Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi

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Re: Re: merged /usr considered harmful (was Re: Bits from the  Technical Committee) "Barak A. Pearlmutter" <bap@debian.org> - 2021-07-22 12:50 +0200
  Re: merged /usr considered harmful (was Re: Bits from the Technical  Committee) Marco d'Itri <md@Linux.IT> - 2021-07-22 14:10 +0200
    Re: merged /usr considered harmful (was Re: Bits from the Technical  Committee) Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org> - 2021-07-22 16:30 +0200
  Re: Re: merged /usr considered harmful (was Re: Bits from the  Technical Committee) Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> - 2021-07-22 14:50 +0200

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