On 3 January 2016 at 03:52, ChangZhuo Chen (陳昌倬) <czc...@debian.org> wrote: > On Sun, Jan 03, 2016 at 01:23:14AM -0200, Martinx - ジェームズ wrote: >> It violates the FHS 2.3 standards. >> >> http://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/FHS_2.3/fhs-2.3.html > > Can you cite the requirement in FHS 2.3 which is violated by usrmerge. I > only found the requirements that allow us to do usrmerge via symbolic > link. For example: > > http://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/FHS_2.3/fhs-2.3.html#Requirements > > The following directories, or symbolic links to directories, are > required in /. > >> Also, if you guys (Debian) reeeeeeeally wants to move everything to >> /usr, so, there is no reason for any symbolic links at the root file >> system. > > Symbolic links at the root file system is required by FHS 2.3. Removing > them will violate it. > > -- > ChangZhuo Chen (陳昌倬) <czc...@debian.org> > Debian Developer (https://nm.debian.org/public/person/czchen) > Key fingerprint = EC9F 905D 866D BE46 A896 C827 BE0C 9242 03F4 552D
Thank you for your time and explanation! I really appreciate it... I just don't get why you guys are pushing this unneeded change. Debian doesn't need this. Systemd doesn't need this either! So, why? Why!? I'm not convinced, even after reading this: https://wiki.freedesktop.org/www/Software/systemd/separate-usr-is-broken/ I don't see any reason to move /bin/bash, to /usr/bin/bash! LOL Some udev rules will silently fail to work if "/usr" is split off and not pre-mounted? So what? This is NO reason to UsrMerge. Just keep "/usr" on the same block device of "/", period. No ugly symlinks on root file system, no Bash at /usr/bin/bash! The problem is that "/usr" is not supported anymore, on a separated partition! Okay, okay... But, moving /bin/* to /usr/bin/* is NOT a solution to this problem, it is a wrong approach. Just tell the users that "/usr" isn't supported on a separated partition anymore (tell users what will happen if they do this / limitations), and do not touch anything else. During install, while partitioning storage, print a message about this, if user tries to separate "/usr". Please, do not bring this UsrMerge thing to Debian. Regards, Thiago
