On Fri, Jan 01, 2016 at 12:23:20PM +0100, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > m...@linux.it (Marco d'Itri) writes: > > Thanks to my conversion program in usrmerge there is no need for a flag > > day, archive rebuilds or similar complexity and we can even continue to > > support unmerged systems. > > Is there any use case that requires supporting unmerged systems?
I don't think so. You already need the / filesystem, and with today storage sizes, if you can hold that, you can hold the whole system, period. Even on any embedded that can run Debian. The last time I've seen a split done due to small / was Maemo ten years ago. And guess what? They didn't use / vs /usr but hacked something where both / and /usr were on the small mmc while big /opt hold most of the files, with symlinks from /usr. That's because their needs were different from those of Ken Thompson in 1971. A reasonable and often important split is keeping /+/usr apart from a box's main purpose, be it /home, /srv or /var/lib/postgresql -- but in any case both / and /usr will be on the same filesystem. Thus, I'd say /usr is pointless on any machine we can reasonably support. -- A tit a day keeps the vet away.
