Hi Philip, On Sat, Apr 09, 2016 at 06:50:49PM -0400, Philip Webb wrote: > Can you or anyone else answer my other question re the origin of the thread ? > -- ie is this a revival of not putting /usr on its own partition > or is it a new proposal to alter the file system in some other way ?
The original discussion was about the usr merge [1], which is taking the binary parts of / and putting them in /usr, then inserting symlinks in / to preserve backward compatibility. Yes, I'm pointing to a document on fdo, but the systemd guys have nothing to do with the /usr merge; it originally happened in Solaris. I never supported the reverse merge that has been discussed, it was just brought up I guess as an example of a Gentoo user being able to do his own setup. Reverse merge meaning moving everything from /usr to /. The thread has definitely gotten more out of hand than I anticipated. It is very hard at this point to separate the pros/cons, bikeshedding and personal preferences. That's why I requested that someone assist with a summary. :-) William https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/TheCaseForTheUsrMerge/
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