Ralph:
> o1bigtenor:
...
> > Is usrmerge a step on the way to having only two partitions
> > (ie / and /home)?

How to partition your disk should be a decision made by the local admin,
the distribution shall not have any say in that.

Now the split bin scheme is unproblematic for a traditional stationary
system. The problem I have heard of is for diskless laptops with nfs over
wifi, any others ?
Also, udev isn't really necessary for traditional stationary systems
unless you have a lot of usb change activity, dito dbus.

> Well, I'm sure the originator(s) and supporter(s) of the idea have
> several different word sequences purporting to make arguments for it's
> necessity and problem solving finesse.
>
> Personally I believe it basically was a change forced on debian
> decision group by people needing to express their clout; a change
> motivated by external reasons outside of technical need and good
> governance. Kind of similar to the recent idea of porting apt software
> to be coded in rust.

Yes, some people tend to mess with others for some annoying reason.

Regards,
/Karl Hammar