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Author: karl
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] running with separate / and /usr
Antony Stone:
> On Monday 16 January 2023 at 16:27:05, Svante Signell via Dng wrote:

...
> > > As a conclusion we'd better get prepared to accept the usrmerge, like
> > > it or not...
> >
> > I strongly disagree with that opinion, anybody else?
>
> Without wishing to open a large can of annelids, can someone tell me why
> anybody actually cares about this? What is the use case for having /usr on a
> separate partition - why does anybody want it?

...

case a:
old, longrunning, remote, hard to reach, systems using split / /usr,
cannot be updated unless you do a lot of travelling

case b:
respect the local admin

Others can fill in more cases, a few have come up in this thread.

Regards,
/Karl Hammar