On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 11:16:04AM +1300, Daniel Reurich wrote:
> </snip>
>
> >
> > Maintaining the option of choosing between the two is what Devuan is
> > trying to do, knowing that it might become harder to support it as
> > time passes. My guess is that there is no real reason for the basic
> > system (the stuff needed at boot time before you get to the point
> > where other filesystems are mounted) to be heavily affected by such a
> > change, since packagers are not going to hardcode /usr/bin/sh in their
> > scripts from tomorrow.
>
> To be honest I don't even think the option should be presented at
> install time - certainly not in the way it's currently being presented
> in the installer - adding yet another dialogue.
>
> I suggest we add it as option in the package-selection to install
> usrmerge or drop it altogether. People that care can install usrmerge
> at any time post-installation and deal with the consequences.
>
> (At the rate we're going, we're adding a new dialogue in the installer
> per release... soon it will become more tedious to install Devuan then
> installing windows...)

I would be more inclined towards leaving the dialog more or less as it
is but making it only available in the expert install (leaving
non-merged-usr as the default). The main problem is that usrmerge (the
package) is a hack, which will be discontinued and become unmaintained
as soon as merged-usr is declared "standard" (and we have seen this
happening already with systemd-shim and libsystemd-dummy, from the
same authors of usrmerge).

If we provide an choice, it ougth to be a reliable one. Users of
expert install won't mind another dialog with the expected default,
and will appreciate the added flexibility, IMHO.

My2cents

KatolaZ

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