On 10/04/16 00:53, William Hubbs wrote: > > 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 /. > I may have contributed to the latter point, but addressing the former specifically, I, like others, have /usr mounted on an NFS server for thin clients (not in the full-true sense, but with a very minimal / currently residing on USB). What you propose moving binaries from / to /usr would render them completely unbootable without early mounting via initramfs. Granted, what I have now is rather a bodge, but it's working fine, and provided I am meticulous about any rare changes from the host build system to /, this is a small problem in the grander scheme of things, and I have one maintained 'install' on my build system. Ok, so a full thin-client would probably be a better* option, but I'm running with what I got, rather than investing a lot (of/more) time/energy in getting that solution working, which failed on (several) previous attempts (hence *).
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