On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 1:25 AM, Roger Leigh <rle...@codelibre.net> wrote: > Well, that's the issue at hand. The reason I mentioned this is > because I believe that the / and /usr separation is a case where we > should stop to consider the "bigger picture" rather than just the > immediate problem. Solving that would solve the /usr/lib and /lib > issue as a natural consequence.
What about the other stuff in /usr? games, include, local, share, src? > All locations managed by dpkg must be considered a unified whole; it > does not make any sense to share one part and not another. They must > be updated together or else the system will be left in a broken and > inconsistent state. A separate /usr is no longer required to boot the > system now we have initramfs. In consequence, there's no reason to > have /bin separate from /usr/bin, /lib from /usr/lib etc. It makes > sense to have /var separate (writable). It makes no sense to have /usr > separate. You're right. Is there a project goal for this yet? Olaf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktikdb6dfz5nu7zd2toquvuxuvuqw+6rvayf03...@mail.gmail.com
