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> Especially on that background I fully understand that Devuan developers
> decided to go along with usr-merge. The effort to keep usr-merge out of
> Devuan would be immense. Alpine Linux will move to it as well¹.
>
> That written: I do not mind all that much whether usr is merged or not. As
> long as the end result works okay. And while pondering that could have
> been done with that insane amount of time, it is in the past already. Most
> of usr-merge has been completed in Debian.

Actually the usr merge itself isn't a real but rather a theoretical issue for me
and I totally appreciate Devuan and it's devs efforts. Slackware was highly
recommended to me 20 years ago and the no dependency management issue stopped me
ever bothering with it. I also wonder what the rc scripts it uses are like as I
like OpenBSDs. I like runit too. It was more if Slackware is unlikely to budge
on usr merge (a guess) because of it's benevolent dictator then what else might
I like about it. I bet it's recovery system lets you just fsck the root disk but
maybe not.