On Fri, Jan 01, 2016 at 01:29:09PM +0100, Simon Richter wrote: > On 01.01.2016 12:23, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > > > Is there any use case that requires supporting unmerged systems? > > Booting without an initrd, which is important for resource-constrained > embedded systems. > > [reasons for !initrd]
No one is proposing dropping support for no-initrd in the general case, just for separate /usr. Legacy systems with such a split would indeed require an initrd, but those are unlikely to be embedded (cf Maemo where /usr was inadequate). -- A tit a day keeps the vet away.
