Michael Biebl <bi...@debian.org> writes:
> On 16.12.2011 18:38, Joey Hess wrote:
>> Christian PERRIER wrote:

>>> I'm inclined to follow this advice and would indeed propose that the
>>> "atomic" partman-auto recipe is kept, however without a separate /usr
>>> partition (discussions on -devel and the current practice convinced me
>>> that a separate /usr is seomthing that probably belongs to the former
>>> century..:-)

>> I don't think that d-i should be on the leading edge of this
>> discussion.  Once Debian has made up its mind, d-i can be updated to
>> follow the consensus.

> To me it looks like there is broad consensus that a separate /usr
> partition should be considered deprecated and this option removed from
> the installer.

There's a bit of disagreement over the deprecation part still, but I think
there's a pretty good consensus that people with a separate /usr from /
are doing so for fairly edge-case situations, such as wanting a partially
encrypted file system, and hence are not the target audience for the
pre-constructed partitioning choices in d-i.

-- 
Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>



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