On Mi, Nov 28, 2018 at 12:11:25 +0100, Didier Kryn wrote:
IIUC, your argument boils down to "depending on /usr for early boot is a *bug*", while Roger told us why it has become a *feature* (~:
You can discuss if this is a feature but the fact is that most distributions have given up supporting a separate /usr in later boot. So any bugreport against lvm2 or nfs-common will be closed because it is not a supported use case.
Maintainers are encouraged to install everything in /usr because it must be available in early boot.
That’s why the usrmerge is only the logical next step. If you can’t live without /usr, you can put everything in it. Why should you waste your precious resources? There are enough other problems.
It would certainly be possible to move all applications and dynamic libraries needed for early boot from the /usr tree to /bin, /sbin and /lib, but Debian has made a different choice. In the case of
With the many features an application can have today you will have a hard time finding and moving all the stuff. And then people would complain that their / doesn’t have enough space…
Shade and sweet water!
Stephan
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