On Sat, Nov 17, 2018 at 11:45:03AM +0100, KatolaZ wrote:

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>
> OK, before we continue with a flame about what is wrong and what is
> right: it seems that the transition to the merged usr is *not*
> mandatory so far, but it is actually performed at install time. I am
> currently trying to understand at which point during installation this
> happens, so that we could just make it optional (i.e, with an opt-in
> semantics).
>

I should have waited a couple of minutes before writing: it looks like
it is just an option in debootstrap. It should be fairly easy to make
it optional by tweaking base-installer. Working on that. We will have
it in the new beowulf installer.

Regards

KatolaZ

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