On Tue, May 07, 2013 at 05:35:11PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On May 07, Игорь Пашев <pashev.i...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > What about merging / and /usr ? > An ambitious plan. > I strongly support the "everything in /usr" scheme, but let's first > consolidate support for "standalone /usr must be mounted by the > initramfs".
I'm working on this at the present (I'm re-doing the proof of concept patches I made a few months back, to clean it all up and make it work in a wider number of cases). I hope to have something by the end of the week, time permitting. That said, I'm not in support of moving things to /usr; it's completely backward. Once we have / and /usr mounted in the initramfs, then we can work on deduplicating shared paths on / and /usr. This will give us the option of migrating either way in the future (if ever). If we do this, I'd prefer to make /usr a symlink to / on new installs, while retaining full backward compatibility for existing users, and requiring zero packaging changes. But the other way would also be possible--it would just be a matter of d-i setting up the links. But none of this is the primary reason for doing this initially. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' schroot and sbuild http://alioth.debian.org/projects/buildd-tools `- GPG Public Key F33D 281D 470A B443 6756 147C 07B3 C8BC 4083 E800 -- 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/20130507155604.gk21...@codelibre.net
