On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 05:36:02PM +0200, Marco d'Itri 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).
This is false for Ubuntu. Not only is it supported, but significant effort was put into *fixing* a /usr-as-separate-mount bug in Ubuntu 9.04 as pertains to wpasupplicant. > I know that Debian supports this, but I also know that maintaning > forever large changes to packages for no real gain sucks. What packages? Any upstream not supporting this is also incompatible with the FHS. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
