Roger:
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> There's no clean separation between the "base" system and "everything else".
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I think my urge to have a separate /usr is that I want such a
separation and there isn't a clear other place to have it.

> The other part of the scenario you mentioned here is "doesn't want to
> use an initramfs". Why?
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I skip initrd to keep the boot setup simple.

Regards,
/Karl Hammar

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