Hi Arnt.

On Thu, 2026-07-02 at 04:51 +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> ..rabbit hole plugging creepy stuff like usr-merge, should
> start off easy with my oldest Devuan:
> root@nb6:~# for p in sbin bin lib lib32 lib64 ;do dpkg -S \
> $(which $(ls /$p/* )) |cut -d":" -f1 |sort |uniq |wc -l \
> ;echo "in /$p" ;done ;cat /etc/issue ;dpkg -l |wc -l
...
> ..the newest kanotix32-towelfire-nightly-eeepc4G.iso I found
> contracted systemd and usr-merge and has 112 linked packages
> in /sbin, 295 linked it /bin and 24 linked in /lib, and 1263
> total packages and didn't reach my old cranky D-Link.
>
What does your script really do? A wish would be a script logging the
number of soft links and files referring to /bin, /sbin etc. Then we
could determine how many soft links are really needed for Devuan
without usrmerge. And those already implemented by me for GNU/Hurd sid.

Thanks!