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ah ok. well then whats the point of this

• blueflow 3y ago
  Yes, this is why its a controversial thing.
• masklinn 3y ago
  usr merge has been a topic for more than a decade, you can easily find articles on the subject in general, and for Debian in particular.
• rektide 3y ago
  There's a bunch of compatibly reasons why this helps maintain portability across Unixes. But my favorite reasons for this are how much nicer it makes managing & switching between Linux images: > The merged directory /usr, containing almost the entire vendor-supplied operating system resources, offers us a number of new features regarding OS snapshotting and options for enterprise environments for network sharing or running multiple guests on one host. https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/TheCaseForTheUsrMerge/ https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/TheCaseFor... And indeed, with systemd one can boot a whole system from practically any unpopulated root mount with a /usr image mounted on it. Want to OS upgrade? Swap /usr & try it. /etc and /home and the other directories might have instance specific content, but the OS image is nicely set away & swappable in /usr. And one should be able to keep the same "instance" while swapping the image. It containerizes the OS image, separate-ish from the OS instancd, whereas before the OS was somewhat amorphously sprawled across multiple top level directories. It's a huge boon to manageability.
• unethical_ban 3y ago
  Well, you can only symlink one direction and they want to merge.
• semiquaver 3y ago
  Think of all the greenhouse gas emissions that will be saved when everyone collectively removes an entry from their $PATH…