Hi Daniel. Daniel Reurich - 16.11.18, 10:11: > Debian as of the upcoming Buster release looks to be implementing a > merged /usr by default. At this stage there is no plan to make it > forced... but you never know what happens when their Technical > Committee suddenly decides it's an issue they need to force a > decision on... > > So... for Devuan, do we want to default to a merged /usr in our coming > release of Beowulf or are we going to resist another pointless > rearranging of the deck chairs... > > Keen to get some feedback on this
I do not yet have a firm opinion on this. So for now I just like to share an experience I had with Debian without usrmerge: I downloaded a software – I do not remember that it was – from somewhere – I do not remember where that was at the moment – and there has been a shell script with the following shebang: #!/usr/bin/bash Of course it did not work on this Debian installation without changing it to "#!/bin/bash". I was surprised about this shell script, cause even with usrmerge usually there are symlinks that make all binaries available in '/bin' and '/sbin' as well. And I'd give it some transition time or use "#!/usr/bin/env bash" (or 'sh' where that is enough, but on Debian by default '/bin/sh' points to 'dash' and dash does not provide most of the usual bashisms). My personal view is that the FHS has quite some deficiencies. I agree with lots from: https://cr.yp.to/slashpackage.html https://cr.yp.to/slashpackage/studies.html But to move to a completely different standard would be 1) lots of work, 2) make it impossible to base Devuan on Debian. So in my opinion it is outside of the scope of Devuan for now. In any case: Regarding a decision I'd take the amount of effort into account which would be needed to divert from Debian's default. As long as Debian still supports the usr split, I bet that effort would be minimal, but as soon as packages appear that just stuff anything in '/usr', then diverting becomes more and more pointless or Devuan would need to carry packages with different directory layout. So for now no firm opinion. Maybe that means I do not care all that much about it. Thanks, -- Martin _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
