[Christoph Anton Mitterer] > Now coreutils is marked as essential, right?! > This means per policy section 3.8 > (http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-binary.html#s3.8): > "Essential is defined as the minimal set of functionality that must be > available and usable on the system at all times" > > As far as I understand,.. it's fully ok, to have /usr on a separate > (i.e. non-root-) filesystem. > > That however would mean, that even outsite initramfs images (which are > probably a special case and do not count) many of corutils' binaries are > not _always_ available.
I believe this is a misunderstanding. The quoted section do not mean that all files in a essential package need to be on the root partition, but that the package should always be installed. This is the first time I hear someone read the policy section the way you do it, and I believe it is not representative for the intention behind that part of the policy. Happy hacking, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/2fl630i3rmu....@login1.uio.no