On Fri, 16 Jun 2023 17:54:25 -0500 Derek Martin <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. I would say, rather, "we've always done it this way" is the worst reason possible for doing something a particular way and you should be looking for better ways to do that thing. Now, maybe it happens that the way you've been doing that thing is the best way to do it, but "this is the best way to do it" is entirely different from "we've always done it this way". One is a best practice; the other is an arbitrary idea of perfection you alluded to. But as I noted earlier, UsrMerge solves genuine problems that have plagued Unix admins for decades. There are clear benefits to doing it, and few (none?) reasons not to. And it's not like everything breaks. Solaris fully converted to merged usr back in 2010 and most major Linux distributions followed over the past decade. Debian is one of the last holdouts and they finally decided to go all-in with Debian 12 (UsrMerge is optional in Debian 11, and it apparently was a nightmare to manage). -- \m/ (--) \m/ _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
