Re: merged-/usr-via-symlinks damage control (was Re: usrmerge -- plan B?)

On Sun, 2019-02-24 at 03:23:09 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > On Tue, 2019-02-19 at 05:49:24 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: […] > > - file a bug on base-installer to request an option to install > > non-broken systems due to merged-/usr-via-symlinks. > > Done. T

Re: merged-/usr-via-symlinks damage control (was Re: usrmerge -- plan B?)

Julian Andres Klode writes: > Having symlinks in /bin and so on would be unclean: We'd have to maintain > one symlink per binary in /usr. This is a lot of symlinks. Does the quantity of symlinks matter? > We also cannot ever get rid of them - it would break the property. Well, on any given sys

Re: merged-/usr-via-symlinks damage control (was Re: usrmerge -- plan B?)

On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 05:49:24AM +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > Hi! > > On Tue, 2018-11-20 at 22:16:17 +0100, Adam Borowski wrote: > > Thus, it seems to me that the plan A for usrmerge has serious downsides for > > dubious benefits. What about the plan B I described above? > > So, people still

Re: merged-/usr-via-symlinks damage control (was Re: usrmerge -- plan B?)

On Sun, 2019-02-24 at 03:23:09 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > On Tue, 2019-02-19 at 05:49:24 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > > So, as part of damage control I'm going to: > > > > - include the Build-Tainted-By patches into dpkg 1.19.5. > > Done. > > > - include a bug-script in dpkg for reportbu

Re: merged-/usr-via-symlinks damage control (was Re: usrmerge -- plan B?)

Hi! On Tue, 2019-02-19 at 05:49:24 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > So, as part of damage control I'm going to: > > - include the Build-Tainted-By patches into dpkg 1.19.5. Done. > - include a bug-script in dpkg for reportbug to report whether the > system has been broken by the merged-/us

merged-/usr-via-symlinks damage control (was Re: usrmerge -- plan B?)

Hi! On Tue, 2018-11-20 at 22:16:17 +0100, Adam Borowski wrote: > Thus, it seems to me that the plan A for usrmerge has serious downsides for > dubious benefits. What about the plan B I described above? So, people still seem to be conflating merged-/usr (the filesystem layout) with the different