On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 5:36 PM, Marco d'Itri <m...@linux.it> wrote: > I have been told by upstream maintainers of one of my packages and by > prominent developers of other distributions that supporting a standalone > /usr is too much work and no other distribution worth mentioning does it > (not Ubuntu, not Fedora, not SuSE). > > I know that Debian supports this, but I also know that maintaning > forever large changes to packages for no real gain sucks. > > So, does anybody still see reasons to continue supporting a standalone > /usr? > If you do, please provide a detailed real-world use case. > A partial list of invalid reasons is: > - "I heard that this was popular in 1998" > - "it's a longstanding tradition to support this" > - "it's really useful on my 386 SX with a 40 MB hard disk"
- NFS - for my wifi box (ie a 386 SX with 8MB of flash) Regards Bastien -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
