On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 11:16:04AM +1300, Daniel Reurich wrote: > </snip> > > > > > Maintaining the option of choosing between the two is what Devuan is > > trying to do, knowing that it might become harder to support it as > > time passes. My guess is that there is no real reason for the basic > > system (the stuff needed at boot time before you get to the point > > where other filesystems are mounted) to be heavily affected by such a > > change, since packagers are not going to hardcode /usr/bin/sh in their > > scripts from tomorrow. > > To be honest I don't even think the option should be presented at > install time - certainly not in the way it's currently being presented > in the installer - adding yet another dialogue. > > I suggest we add it as option in the package-selection to install > usrmerge or drop it altogether. People that care can install usrmerge > at any time post-installation and deal with the consequences. > > (At the rate we're going, we're adding a new dialogue in the installer > per release... soon it will become more tedious to install Devuan then > installing windows...)
I would be more inclined towards leaving the dialog more or less as it is but making it only available in the expert install (leaving non-merged-usr as the default). The main problem is that usrmerge (the package) is a hack, which will be discontinued and become unmaintained as soon as merged-usr is declared "standard" (and we have seen this happening already with systemd-shim and libsystemd-dummy, from the same authors of usrmerge). If we provide an choice, it ougth to be a reliable one. Users of expert install won't mind another dialog with the expected default, and will appreciate the added flexibility, IMHO. My2cents KatolaZ -- [ ~.,_ Enzo Nicosia aka KatolaZ - Devuan -- Freaknet Medialab ] [ "+. katolaz [at] freaknet.org --- katolaz [at] yahoo.it ] [ @) http://kalos.mine.nu --- Devuan GNU + Linux User ] [ @@) http://maths.qmul.ac.uk/~vnicosia -- GPG: 0B5F062F ] [ (@@@) Twitter: @KatolaZ - skype: katolaz -- github: KatolaZ ]
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