Steve Litt - 13.11.21, 23:24:51 CET:
> By the way, for the person who really wants the usr merge, wouldn't
> the conversion from an unmerged system consist of two mass copies and
> a few symlinks?

No.

At least not if you like dpkg to be working fine. As I noted before, see:

https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Dpkg/MergedUsr

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Martin