Re: merged /usr considered harmful (was Re: Bits from the Technical Committee)

2021-07-19 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Sun, Jul 18, 2021 at 11:31:07PM +0200, Svante Signell wrote: Hi, is it OK to forward your mail to debian-devel. I don't think mailing to debian-user will have any effect on this issue? No, I don't think it's appropriate to try and recruit an army from other mailing lists to try and prop up

Re: merged /usr considered harmful (was Re: Bits from the Technical Committee)

2021-07-19 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sun, Jul 18, 2021 at 07:16:30PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > Will the merge-usr cause myself problem ? > > You would end up with an empty partition, and possibly an overflowed > root partition, if you made the root partition too small to hold all > of the content from /usr.

Re: merged /usr considered harmful (was Re: Bits from the Technical Committee)

2021-07-18 Thread Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
Hi, On 2021-07-18 7:21 p.m., Andy Smith wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, Jul 18, 2021 at 05:54:33PM -0400, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside > wrote: >> On 2021-07-18 5:07 p.m., Andy Smith wrote: >>> I recommend understanding the issue before putting forth an opinion. >>> >> Maybe I shall correct what I

Re: merged /usr considered harmful (was Re: Bits from the Technical Committee)

2021-07-18 Thread Brian
On Sun 18 Jul 2021 at 19:16:30 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sun, Jul 18, 2021 at 11:31:07PM +0200, Svante Signell wrote: > > Hi, is it OK to forward your mail to debian-devel. I don't think > > mailing to debian-user will have any effect on this issue? > > What issue? -devel are presently

Re: merged /usr considered harmful (was Re: Bits from the Technical Committee)

2021-07-18 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sun, Jul 18, 2021 at 11:31:07PM +0200, Svante Signell wrote: > Hi, is it OK to forward your mail to debian-devel. I don't think > mailing to debian-user will have any effect on this issue? What issue? > On Sun, 2021-07-18 at 16:31 -0400, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside > wrote: > > I

Re: merged /usr considered harmful (was Re: Bits from the Technical Committee)

2021-07-18 Thread Svante Signell
Hi, is it OK to forward your mail to debian-devel. I don't think mailing to debian-user will have any effect on this issue? On Sun, 2021-07-18 at 16:31 -0400, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: > Hi, > > > > But in any case, given that merged-usr-via-aliased-dirs is not > > > really > > >

Re: merged /usr considered harmful (was Re: Bits from the Technical Committee)

2021-07-18 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sun, Jul 18, 2021 at 04:31:11PM -0400, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: > My personal opinion is that Debian is going into a mostly "we got the > best idea in the world but forgot that not everyone implement things the > same way". I recommend understanding the issue before

Re: merged /usr considered harmful (was Re: Bits from the Technical Committee)

2021-07-18 Thread Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
Hi, >> But in any case, given that merged-usr-via-aliased-dirs is not really >> supported by dpkg anyway, it is broken by design [B], I have no >> intention whatsoever to break any of my systems with such layout >> going forward, I'm thus planning to spend any necessary volunteer >> time