Derek Martin wrote: > On Fri, Jun 16, 2023 at 10:05:54AM -0400, Rich Pieri wrote: > > Debian 12 was released last week(end). With it comes the mandatory > > change to merged /usr. > > I'm curious if this change is thought to have any genuine practical > benefit, or if it's just the usual, "I'm a bored developer, time to > break something completely arbitrarily, that's working perfectly fine, > that people have been used to for literally decades, that will likely > cause random obscure problems, simply because it does not uphold some > arbitrary idea I have of design perfection..."
The original split was a hack caused by not having big enough disks. Remember that there's a cycle caused by adapting to tech and another cycle caused by adapting to politics: Tech: disks aren't big enough, let's split into two directories so one has the tools necessary for the system to boot and the other has all the others. Ooh, we keep overflowing filesystems and breaking the system: can we mount different partitions? And different disks? But that's a mess, so can we keep them all on the same combination of disks? Politics: how do I keep my OS binaries separate from the ones I installed, separate from the ones that I'm installing from a commercial software company, separate from the GNU stuff that isn't built in, separate from the stuff that I can't share across machines of different architectures... -dsr- _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
