On Mon, Nov 17, 2025 at 02:59:25AM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Nov 2025 00:22:20 +0000 (GMT), Kevin wrote in message
> <91686d6f-8f45-4924-95f0-93ecfd37c6d6@???>:
>
> > 17 Nov 2025 00:16:18 kc-devuan@???:
> >
> > > Of course I doubt slackware will ever do a usr merge.
> >
> > I'm considering switching to Slackware 15. Thoughts such as on the
> > init system it uses?
>
>
> ..welcome onboard. Me, I'd like to see Devuan ditch Debian as
> upstream for anything statically compiled that belongs in /bin,
> /sbin, /etc, /lib and /boot, going with Slackware as upstream
> for anything needed for booting, mantenance etc admin/root tasks.
>
> ..anything used by /home/* users can probably carry on using
> Debian as upstream provided their PATH drops /bin and becomes
> e.g. PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games.
>
> ..I see no valid reason any of the /home/* user needs any of
> the /bin, /sbin etc root's admin programs, if they need root
> access for anything, they should start with 'sudo su - ' or
> 'ssh root@??? ' or login as root.
>
> ..this means we can limit our efforts to using e.g. alien to
> convert Slackware admin etc packages to devuan .deb packages
> for anything statically compiled that belongs in /bin, /sbin,
> /etc, /lib and /boot, going with Slackware as upstream for
> anything needed for booting, mantenance etc admin/root tasks.

There are several howtos available to use busybox as your root
filesystem, and force apt to put binaries in /usr