On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 11:33:22AM +0100, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: > On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 09:21:23PM +0000, Roy Marples wrote: > > To fix this, I suggest that we split syslogd into syslogd and > > syslogd-network. > > We could also do a much simpler and more radical decision and stop > splitting / and /usr. Of all the partitioning choices available, it > truely seems to be a pointless legacy from extremely constrained > hardware with a significant cost to maintain.
However, we still support a lot of this hardware and often there is no easy upgrade path. I did three installations last year using that split. One of them was an amd64 machine and the size restrictions came from a limited selection of boot devices and other OSes occupying parts of the disk already (with no easy way to move things around arbitrarily). Martin
