On 8 January 2016 at 10:21, Marc Haber <mh+debian-de...@zugschlus.de> wrote: >>So let's say you installed lenny and had 512 MiB for / (with separate >>/usr) because you thought back then that it was more than enough (more >>than double the installed size) - and upgrade to Jessie will either run >>out of disk space or come very close to it. > > Yes, this happens. Do we really have to _force_ this? It is annoying > enough when it happens caused by the normal flow of things. Even if > this is the case, not all systems will explode during the same system > upgrades, allowing the local admin to spread those changes over two or > even three releases. If we would, in some future, ship an upgrade that > uncaringly would _require_ a repartitioning, this spread would not be > possible, and it would undoubtedly call up management attention, which > could in turn lead to management taking vendor decisions that we don't > want.
Marc, please re-read the whole thread from the very beginning. Nobody forces merged /usr on you. -- Cheers, Andrew
