On Tue, 2009-05-05 at 17:41 +0200, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote: > 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)
Interesting. I thought 386 wasn't supported anymore (?) http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch02s01.html.en#id2756691 Franklin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
