On Wed, 2020-02-19 at 12:58 +0100, Johannes Schauer wrote: > Quoting Guillem Jover (2020-02-18 19:43:53) > > * If you are using raw debootstrap then just pass that option. Or > > just switch to use mmdebstrap which does not have a broken default, > > and is way way faster anyway. > > since you mention mmdebstrap, let me add another reason against getting > merged-usr the way that debootstrap does it. > > The main reason I wrote mmdebstrap was *not* that it's so much faster or > produces smaller tarballs than debootstrap. My main motivation was, to have a > tool that can be used to experiment with a *package-centric* way of setting up > a Debian rootfs from scratch.
That limitation in debootstrap exists because Debian currently support both merged-/usr or non-merged-/usr. If Debian would *require* merged- /usr and packages would stop shipping files in `/bin`, then a package could just ship the `bin -> usr/bin` symlinks. Ansgar
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