On Thu, Dec 7, 2023 at 8:19 AM Richard Purdie
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2023-12-07 at 07:59 -0700, Joshua Watt wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 7, 2023 at 5:36 AM Ross Burton <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > For many years we’ve been carrying patches to recipes to move some
> > > libraries or binaries into /bin and /lib, on the argument that
> > > people might have /usr on another mount.
> > >
> > > I don’t believe this has been the case for a long time.
> >
> > AFAICT, the usrmerge distro feature (effectively) forces this
> > already,
> > so I don't really see a problem with making it the standard.
> > Presumably, that will make it so that usrmerge is always enabled and
> > the actual distro feature will be removed or a noop?
>
> No, this is something different. Ross is referring to the patches which
> allow you to mount /usr late in the boot. We've slowly been dropping
> these over time and I very much doubt it works now.
>
> The usrmerge thing is a bit different.

Got it. The reasons behind dropping this is pretty much the same for
requiring usrmerge [1], so I (incorrectly) assumed they were the same
thing. Either way, seems good to drop it.

[1]: http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/2010-December/074114.html

>
> Cheers,
>
> Richard
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