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Re: disable auto-linking of /bin -> /usr/bin/

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On Wed, Jan 10, 2024 at 10:41:05AM -0800, Mike Castle wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 10, 2024 at 9:53 AM Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> wrote:
> > น There was another use-case which is "sharing a read-only /usr
> >   between systems by NFS, etc." but at the time this was widely
> >   regarded a lost cause as so many other things violated the
> >   premise.
> 
> I did that for years.
> 
> Then again, when I started doing that, I was using PLIP over a
> null-printer cable.  But even after I could afford larger harddrives
> (so I had room to install /usr), and Ethernet cards (and later a hub),
> I still ran /usr over NFS.
> 
> Personally, I'm rather saddened by usrmerge.  But, such is life.

For me it's one of those fairly harmless but useless churns.

Yes, the main reason for the separation of /usr has more or less
disappeared with the arrival of initramfs, but still... why.

Cheers
-- 
t

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disable auto-linking of /bin -> /usr/bin/ miphix <miphix@insomnia247.nl> - 2024-01-10 06:20 +0100
  Re: disable auto-linking of /bin -> /usr/bin/ <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2024-01-10 06:50 +0100
    Re: disable auto-linking of /bin -> /usr/bin/ Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> - 2024-01-10 08:00 +0100
      Re: disable auto-linking of /bin -> /usr/bin/ Tim Woodall <debianuser@woodall.me.uk> - 2024-01-10 08:10 +0100
  Re: disable auto-linking of /bin -> /usr/bin/ Tim Woodall <debianuser@woodall.me.uk> - 2024-01-10 07:40 +0100
  Re: disable auto-linking of /bin -> /usr/bin/ Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2024-01-10 17:40 +0100
    Re: disable auto-linking of /bin -> /usr/bin/ Mike Castle <dalgoda+debian@gmail.com> - 2024-01-10 19:50 +0100
      Re: disable auto-linking of /bin -> /usr/bin/ <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2024-01-10 20:00 +0100
        Re: disable auto-linking of /bin -> /usr/bin/ Mike Castle <dalgoda+debian@gmail.com> - 2024-01-10 20:50 +0100
          Re: disable auto-linking of /bin -> /usr/bin/ tomas@tuxteam.de - 2024-01-11 06:50 +0100
          Re: disable auto-linking of /bin -> /usr/bin/ Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2024-01-11 14:20 +0100
      /usr on NFS (was: Re: disable auto-linking of /bin -> /usr/bin/) Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2024-01-10 22:40 +0100
  Re: disable auto-linking of /bin -> /usr/bin/ Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2024-01-11 05:10 +0100

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