Sat, 13 Nov 2021 17:24:51 -0500 - Steve Litt <sl...@troubleshooters.com>:
> k...@aspodata.se said on Sat, 13 Nov 2021 22:28:02 +0100 (CET) > > >James Cloos: > >> >>>>> John Morris via Dng <dng@lists.dyne.org> writes: > >> > So yes, it is time to eliminate /bin, /sbin and /lib. > >> the real result shod be eliminate /usr. > > > >Guys, please don't push unnessary changes and policies > >to the user. Let each and everyone be the master of his/her > >own systems. > > Ex-actly! > > > > >Just because debian wants to go that route doesn't mean > >it has to be engraved as a policy for devuan. > > If it's possible to diverge from Debian's usr merge with Devuan's given > (wo)manpower, I agree. I totally agree. > Starting somewhere in the 00's, Debian started > making a lot of bad decisions. Indeed. > By the way, for the person who really wants the usr merge, wouldn't the > conversion from an unmerged system consist of two mass copies and a few > symlinks? > > SteveT Unfortunately things seem to be rather more complex, as some people have pointed out in this discussion: Sat, 13 Nov 2021 23:29:16 +0100 - Martin Steigerwald <mar...@lichtvoll.de>: > Steve Litt - 13.11.21, 23:24:51 CET: > > By the way, for the person who really wants the usr merge, wouldn't > > the conversion from an unmerged system consist of two mass copies and > > a few symlinks? > > No. > > At least not if you like dpkg to be working fine. As I noted before, see: > > https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Dpkg/MergedUsr My suspected is that the (totally unecessary) usr-merge decision made by Debian will force (almost) all its derivatives to adapt even if they despite. This is because maintaining a derived distribution rejecting usr-merge would become too complex and onerous... Best regards al3xu5 -- Say NO to copyright, patents, trademarks and industrial design restrictions! ____________________________________________________________________________ Public GPG/PGP key: 8FC2 3121 2803 86E9 F7D8 B624 DA50 835B 2624 A36B
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