On Wed, Jan 10, 2024 at 10:41:05AM -0800, Mike Castle wrote: > On Wed, Jan 10, 2024 at 9:53 AM Andy Smith <a...@strugglers.net> wrote: > > น There was another use-case which is "sharing a read-only /usr > > between systems by NFS, etc." but at the time this was widely > > regarded a lost cause as so many other things violated the > > premise. > > I did that for years. > > Then again, when I started doing that, I was using PLIP over a > null-printer cable. But even after I could afford larger harddrives > (so I had room to install /usr), and Ethernet cards (and later a hub), > I still ran /usr over NFS. > > Personally, I'm rather saddened by usrmerge. But, such is life.
For me it's one of those fairly harmless but useless churns. Yes, the main reason for the separation of /usr has more or less disappeared with the arrival of initramfs, but still... why. Cheers -- t
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