On Fri, Jun 16, 2023 at 06:39:40PM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: > 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:
I know this very well. The point is, is there a strong, compelling reason, now that it has been this way for again, literally decades, to upend what has been done? I do not see one. "It is no longer necessary to do it this way," is not one. Change for no practical reason is bad change. -- Derek D. Martin http://www.pizzashack.org/ GPG Key ID: 0xDFBEAD02 -=-=-=-=- This message is posted from an invalid address. Replying to it will result in undeliverable mail due to spam prevention. Sorry for the inconvenience. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
