On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 09:44:42AM -0400, Sam Hartman wrote: > >>>>> "Giacomo" == Giacomo Catenazzi <c...@debian.org> writes: > > Giacomo> The rationale was probably similar so symlinks: they may > Giacomo> fail across different filesystems, and we supported to have > Giacomo> e.g. / /usr /usr/share /usr/local /var (and various /var/*) > Giacomo> /home /tmp /boot etc on different file systems. Now we are > Giacomo> more strict on where we can split filesystems (and disk are > Giacomo> larger, and LVM simplified much of filesystem handling). > > But I think even in 1996, we anticipated a single source package > (*source package*) being unpacked on a single filesystem. > Perhaps we were worried about filesystems like umsdos?
It is good to see I am not the only one left who remember about umsdos! I am pretty sure we were concerned about source packages being unpackable on non Debian systems, though. Cheers, -- Bill. <ballo...@debian.org> Imagine a large red swirl here.
