On Wed 01 Jan 2020 at 11:04:32 (+0200), Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Ma, 31 dec 19, 16:56:31, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 31, 2019 at 04:23:24PM +0100, Sven Hartge wrote: > > > to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > > On Tue, Dec 31, 2019 at 03:34:34PM +0100, Sven Hartge wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > > >> The usr-merge is already here, if you install Debian Buster [...] > > > > > > or upgrading from a non-user-merge installation :-) > > > > > > Sure. it is just a bit tedious to first install Stretch to upgrade to a > > > non-usr-merged Buster. > > > > This wasn't meant as a recommendation :-) > > > > Whoever cares about this will hopefully know easier ways to achieve that. > > > > Rather for those who now look at their setup and wonder... > > debootstrap --no-merged-usr is one option I know of.
I assume once again that this wasn't meant as a recommendation. But this does follow the (snipped) comment 'the "/usr Merge" that might hit a fan someday'. For those *not* preparing packages for Debian and/or other distributions, can anyone express a downside to usr-merge, ie for typical "user/consumers". I've read the references posted here, as well as https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2019/03/msg00001.html and the discussions and ballot that led up to it https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=914897 and I haven't seen any indication of […] that hasn't hit the fan already. I'm not trying to discuss the implementation of the change, nor the bumps in the road for developing installable packages on varied targets, but just the cons (I can see pros) for the end user. Cheers, David.
