On Mi, Nov 28, 2018 at 12:11:25 +0100, Didier Kryn wrote:
>    IIUC, your argument boils down to "depending on /usr for early boot
>is a *bug*", while Roger told us why it has become a *feature* (~:

You can discuss if this is a feature but the fact is that most
distributions have given up supporting a separate /usr in later boot.

So any bugreport against lvm2 or nfs-common will be closed because it is
not a supported use case.

Maintainers are encouraged to install everything in /usr because it must
be available in early boot.

That’s why the usrmerge is only the logical next step. If you can’t live
without /usr, you can put everything in it. Why should you waste your
precious resources? There are enough other problems.

>    It would certainly be possible to move all applications and dynamic
>libraries needed for early boot from the /usr tree to /bin, /sbin and
>/lib, but Debian has made a different choice. In the case of

With the many features an application can have today you will have a hard
time finding and moving all the stuff. And then people would complain
that their / doesn’t have enough space…

Shade and sweet water!

    Stephan

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