On 18/11/18 at 21:29, golinux@??? wrote:
> On 2018-11-18 02:32, KatolaZ wrote:
>>
>> Besides the drama: we built yesterday a preliminary version of the
>> debian-installer for beowulf which has an explicit opt-in question for
>> usrmerge:
>>
>>
>> https://pkgmaster.devuan.org/devuan/dists/unstable/main/installer-amd64/current/
>>
>>
>> and defaults to the classical behaviour (/bin and /sbin proper folders
>> under /). Please use the mini.iso, and do not report any bug related
>> to desktop thingies not working, since elogind and polkit-stuff are
>> not there yet.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> KatolaZ
>>
>
> Sooooo . . . if the choice to avoid the merge is only available with
> debian-installer what does that mean for the live isos?  Will they be
> configured with or without the merge as default?  That's a decision
> that needs to be discussed too.
>
> golinux


  In my opinion, install CD/DVDs are one case in which the merge makes
sense, as you inevitably have a single filesystem on the media anyway. 
This does not prevent installing an unmerged filesystem, neither makes
doing so any more complicated.  That I know of, no installer cares what
the install media filesystem layout is like when they configure the
target filesystem.  The target filesystem can use the same filesystem of
separate ones for /, /usr, /var, /boot and/or /home and set them up as
RAID, LVM or dm-crypt regardless of the install media FS layout.





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