On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 05:36:02PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > I have been told by upstream maintainers of one of my packages and by > prominent developers of other distributions that supporting a standalone > /usr is too much work and no other distribution worth mentioning does it > (not Ubuntu, not Fedora, not SuSE). > > I know that Debian supports this, but I also know that maintaning > forever large changes to packages for no real gain sucks. > > So, does anybody still see reasons to continue supporting a standalone > /usr? > If you do, please provide a detailed real-world use case. > A partial list of invalid reasons is: > - "I heard that this was popular in 1998" > - "it's a longstanding tradition to support this" > - "it's really useful on my 386 SX with a 40 MB hard disk"
Scenarion A, desktop - / on non-LVM, fixed size, as recovery from a broken LVM setup is way harder if / is on LVM - /usr on LVM, as it can grow significantly, and having it on LVM is much more flexible Scenario B, laptop/netbook - / non-encrypted, small, asks for passphrase to boot - everything else on dm-crypt+lvm This seems a very weird proposition to me. Separate /usr works, as is more flexible: needed space for / is < 500MB, needed space for /usr is > 4GB. regards, iustin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org