On Sun, Dec 02, 2018 at 07:54:39PM +0000, Simon McVittie wrote: > I would encourage anyone with questions about the behaviour of merged and > unmerged /usr systems to try them, either by building one chroot, container > or VM with merged /usr and one without, or by building a chroot, container > or VM with unmerged /usr, copying it, and installing usrmerge in the copy.
That would give me an impression about how things are today. > The answer to your question is that non-/usr-merged systems behave the > same way they always have: binaries end up wherever the source package > chooses to put them when it builds the .deb (typically determined by > where they appear under debian/tmp). The next debhelper change might choose to give / instead of /usr as a target directory by default, moving hundreds of megabytes from /usr to / over time. My question was about the distant future, and not the current snapshot of things. And, it has been satisfactorily answered by now. Greetings Marc -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Leimen, Germany | lose things." Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 6224 1600402 Nordisch by Nature | How to make an American Quilt | Fax: *49 6224 1600421
