On Fri, 2021-08-13 at 07:53:20 +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > Implementations with real /bin /sbin /lib* directories and symlink farms > are not useful because they would negate the major benefits of > merged-/usr, i.e. the ability of sharing and independently updating > /usr.
Yes, that major benefit that is completely broken by design and unsupported anyway, because /etc and /var can also easily get out of sync. If you rely on this then you are on your own anyway… Also nothing prevents sharing /usr with symlink farms, iff all systems are in sync, which they must anyway. So that argument is pretty void of substance and founded on a base of unreliability… but what's new. Guillem
