Bug#810301: technical reason for "merged /usr support" in debootstrap

2016-01-10 Thread Geert Stappers
On Sun, Jan 10, 2016 at 09:25:43PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > So I think that Geert's objections are either answered or not valid. > My objections were based on not knowing _why_ the change is needed. I assumed a repair, meanwhile I understand it is about creating a possiblity, a doorway

Bug#810301: technical reason for "merged /usr support" in debootstrap

2016-01-10 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sun, Jan 10, 2016 at 06:43:27AM +0100, Christian PERRIER a écrit : > Quoting Geert Stappers (stapp...@stappers.nl): > > > * No pointers to the discussion in the opening of this B.R. > > There's a lengthy discussion in -devel and this issue about merged > /usr is something I see floting around

Bug#810301: technical reason for "merged /usr support" in debootstrap

2016-01-10 Thread Philip Hands
Geert Stappers writes: > On Sun, Jan 10, 2016 at 09:25:43PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: >> >> So I think that Geert's objections are either answered or not valid. >> > > My objections were based on not knowing _why_ the change is needed. > I assumed a repair, meanwhile I

Bug#810301: technical reason for "merged /usr support" in debootstrap

2016-01-09 Thread Marco d'Itri
Control: tag -1 -moreinfo On Jan 09, Geert Stappers wrote: > * It is not clear what problem is being fixed. It allows to support new use cases like OS snapshots, real read only OS filesystems, real shared (maybe networked) OS filesystems and stateless computers. For a

Bug#810301: technical reason for "merged /usr support" in debootstrap

2016-01-09 Thread Geert Stappers
Control: tag -1 moreinfo On Fri, Jan 08, 2016 at 06:40:31AM +0100, Christian PERRIER wrote: > > To other D-I developers: I'm very tempted to give full confidence in > Marco's proposals (this one and the one related to devices creation), > apply these patches, upload and wait for input. > Any

Bug#810301: technical reason for "merged /usr support" in debootstrap

2016-01-09 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Geert Stappers (stapp...@stappers.nl): > * No pointers to the discussion in the opening of this B.R. There's a lengthy discussion in -devel and this issue about merged /usr is something I see floting around for years. Random picks in the said discussion seem to show a quite good