On Fri, Aug 13, 2021 at 10:16:57AM +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote:
> On Fri, 2021-08-13 at 07:53 +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> > Implementations with real /bin /sbin /lib* directories and symlink farms
> > are not useful because they would negate the major benefits of
> > merged-/usr, i.e. the ability of sharing and independently updating
> > /usr.
> >
>
> Indeed, it would be a completely pointless exercise. There's no benefit until
> you can safely ignore the split-usr legacy directories, which with this
> alternative scheme would never happen, and that's the whole point. As SUSE
> found out after wasting 10 years trying to implement this failed strategy,
> despite having tools and a build system that are light years ahead of what
> Debian has (and a stronger top-down governance model too, which doesn't leave
> much room for dissent), such package-by-package transition will never finish.
We finished the /usr/doc transition in *exactly* this way. Yes it took
us longer, but we have better tools now.
So I call BS on "it will never finish".
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