On Sun, Nov 18, 2018 at 08:52:26PM +0000, Simon Hobson wrote: > goli...@dyne.org wrote: > > > Sooooo . . . if the choice to avoid the merge is only available with > > debian-installer what does that mean for the live isos? Will they be > > configured with or without the merge as default? > > Does it make any difference at all on a live ISO ? If it's setup merged, then > anything referencing /bin (etc) will follow the symlink and access /usr/bin > (etc). > However, as the default for Devuan seems likely to be unmerged, then it would > make sense for the live ISOs to be the same. Scripts etc will have to be > written to deal with the unmerged (split) layout so nothing should break that > way - unless the script is written by someone assuming that nothing in the > world runs unsplit any more. Any such scripts will need fixing to run on > installed systems anyway, so would then run on a live ISO with split > directories. >
It does make a difference since we allow to install from the live, using refractainstaller (not d-i). I guess the ISOs themselves will be built without a merged usr, and then we will let the user choose if they want a merged usr in case they decide to install from the live. KISS KatolaZ -- [ ~.,_ Enzo Nicosia aka KatolaZ - Devuan -- Freaknet Medialab ] [ "+. katolaz [at] freaknet.org --- katolaz [at] yahoo.it ] [ @) http://kalos.mine.nu --- Devuan GNU + Linux User ] [ @@) http://maths.qmul.ac.uk/~vnicosia -- GPG: 0B5F062F ] [ (@@@) Twitter: @KatolaZ - skype: katolaz -- github: KatolaZ ]
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