On 12/11/17 04:24, Joerg Reisenweber wrote:
> On Tue 07 November 2017 17:50:27 John Hughes wrote:
>> The separation of / and /usr is a relic of really, really tiny disk sizes.
> Like, for example, ARMv7 systems with a 128MB NAND to boot from, keeping /usr
> on a separate storage like SSD? Doesn't sound like an obsolete ancient relic

I have a N900, that is not news to me and has already been addressed by
Adam Borowski:
https://lists.dyne.org/lurker/message/20171108.052040.5cb5ca3d.en.html

> In the last case I'm aware of where someone tried a stock
> system with a split, Maemo, the /usr split was deemed inadequate and they
> instead decided to move most stuff to /opt while stuffing the usual
> places
> with symlinks -- adapting packages enough to have / capable of booting
> would
> require too much work.