On Aug 16, Wouter Verhelst <wou...@debian.org> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 13, 2021 at 07:53:20AM +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. > In those cases, you would never run dpkg inside the system with the > "shared" /usr directory, so for those cases having /bin /sbin /lib* be > symlinks or real directories is irrelevant. It is not irrelevant because then you would need to update /bin /sbin /lib* on the root file system when a new binary is added to the /usr file system (e.g. in an updated OS image). So I do not think that you understand well this use case.
> The point of having /bin etc not be a symlink is *to stop confusing > dpkg*. This is a legitimate but very minor goal which could also be achieved by changing dpkg. -- ciao, Marco
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