Once upon a time, Matthew Garrett <mjg59(a)srcf.ucam.org> said:
Because it takes more engineering effort to keep it as a separate
partition, as evidenced by the number of bugs that keep appearing that
are only triggered by this niche usecase.
And how many of those bugs are exclusively a /usr-is-separate problem
vs. how many of them are didn't-anticipate-alternate-partitioning
problems? I don't understand how separate /usr can be the sole trigger
for all these many bugs. The only type of bug I can see attributed only
to separate /usr are bootup requiring things in /usr before non-root
filesystems are mounted.
I expect other bugs attributed to separate /usr are really problems
handling non-default partitioning schemes of many kinds.
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Chris Adams <cmadams(a)hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.