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Why not read the reasoning once? https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/TheCaseForTheUsrMerge/ https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/The

• cerved 5y ago
  > There is no valid reason anymore to have the operating system spread over multiple hierarchies, it lost its purpose. I always thought the reason was to categorize binaries which seemed like a valid reason
• erik_seaberg 5y ago
  > What changes is simply that you need to boot with an initrd that mounts /usr before jumping into the root file system. > On Fedora the root directory contains ~450MB already. This hasn't been minimal since a long time[…] > There is no way to reliably bring up a modern system with an empty /usr. These seem like workarounds for self-inflicted Fedora problems. Having a known-good /bin from boot time seems strictly better than an extra copy of some of /bin in a ramdisk that almost nobody works with because it’s quickly thrown away.
• enriquto 5y ago
  • mekster 5y ago
    What offensive word in the URL?
    • 0des 5y ago