Re: Re: support for merged /usr in Debian

[Eric Valette]

Remember that / and /usr don't have to reside on the same partition with the usrmerge proposal: they only have to be both available post-initramfs. The initramfs already takes care to mount /usr (for the systemd case as initscripts needs updates for sysvinit as was said elsewhere). So no repartitioning should be required on upgrades. As explained elsewhere in this thread, using initramfs is still not mandatory in debian and I personally have more managed debian system installed without it than with it. And the fact that /usr break may require user interaction is not really handled by initramfs and may cause dangling sysmlink in / -- eric