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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