I'm coming into this late in the game, and I'm sure I'm not
understanding all the parameters at the moment: I need to do more
reading and research. A couple of things occurred to me:

- does the usrmerge process keep a log? If so, would it be possible to
do a "usrdemerge"? If not, maybe it might be a good idea to introduce
logging into the package? (If the maintainer would allow it, of course
. . . ) Obviously, just putting the files back into their original
locations isn't going to be sufficient to reverse the usrmerge process
- all the things which depend on the new locations would also need to
be fixed.

- probably worth reproducing the problem with the usrmerge upgrade and
doing a detailed diagnosis. (By now, someone may have already started
on that.)

On Sat, 2026-06-20 at 07:55 -0500, o1bigtenor via Dng wrote:
> Greetings
>
> I use a separate system to do initial updates on before I do some on
> my main system.
> A habit developed quite some time ago on advice from a mentor.
>
> Did the usrmerge upgrade and then had an unusable system.
> Stopped there.
>
> Have seen comments which seem to suggest that this usrmerge idea is
> not really a
> good idea.
>
> So do I reinstall Daedalus on my testing system and not bother
> upgrading to Excalibur
> waiting for perhaps an option where I don't need to use usrmerge or
> do
> I do an install of
> Excalibur removing Daedalus (which is no borked).
>
> Advice is sought - - - please?
>
> TIA
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