Quoting Stephan Seitz (stse+devuan@???):

> On Do, Nov 29, 2018 at 01:22:05 -0500, Steve Litt wrote:
> >My understanding is that Devuan will ask in the fresh installer whether
> >the user wants to merge or not, with the default being no merge. This
> >is fine with me. Do you have a problem with it?
>
> Nope, but even Devuan will probably never support a separate /usr

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> without mounting it in early boot via initrd.

Compiling a kernel locally to include inline essential hardware drivers
is so simple I _think_ I could teach even a Republican Party voter how
to do it. ;->

ITYM 'will probably never support without sysadmin manual work to create
a bespoke kernel and eliminate local dependency on an initramfs', which,
sure, fair enough. Personally, though, my fingers aren't broken.