Svante Signell via Dng - 05.11.21, 21:13:10 CET: > On Fri, 2021-11-05 at 18:50 +0000, Alexis PM via Dng wrote: > > Debian 11 Bullseye is the last Debian release that supports the > > non- > > merged-usr layout. It is therefore foreseeable that Devuan 4 > > Chimaera > > will also be. > > I'm not so sure Devuan has to follow Debian with respect to merged- > /usr. In my opinion it is more a policy decision to make for the > project. It is up to discussion though though. > Comments/arguments/opinions are very welcomed.
I wonder what Devuan would do, if Debian packages ship all binaries in /usr. It would need quite some patching to undo it. But for all Devuan Beowulf / Chimaera servers it will be no /usr-merge for me. And for my Devuan Ceres laptops it will be like that for as long as possible. I do not find the link at the moment, but I saw a quite good idea for an alternative to the FHS standard. And this was using /command directory for the currently active binaries, symlinked to packages in /package directory where they contain version numbers. And also some provision for documentation. I do not know how libs where handled tough in this scheme. But in the end an alternative would need to provide a real benefit for me, especially if some breakage is to be expected. With merged /usr I get the breakage… but I do not see much of a benefit at least for the way I use Linux. Best, -- Martin _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
