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[Sukneet Basuta <sukneet AT gmail.com>]

On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 5:16 AM, Ladislav Hagara <ladislav.hagara AT unob.cz> 
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> any plan with /usr merge [1]?
> Personally I don't like it but I am a realist. We have no chance to
> change the upstream.
> New versions of crucial upstream packages rely on /usr merge.

Which packages? The page you linked to seems to suggest that
everything will still work with and without the /usr merge. The only
problem I can find is mentioned at
http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/separate-usr-is-broken
mentions , which basically states various software won't work if /usr
isn't pre-mounted. I don't think that is an issue with out current
init. It may be an issue for people using systemd or similar init
systems.

The page Ladislav linked to and
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.devel/155511/focus=155792
do make some valid, interesting points, but most of them are
irrelevant to me.

Given that,
"What changes is simply that you need to boot with an initrd that
mounts /usr before jumping into the root file system. Most
distributions rely on initrds anyway, so effectively little changes."
and that we let the user choose whether to use initrd or not, I don't
think we can force this change. If a user wants this, its easy enough
to create the symlinks themselves. Perhaps we can automate it during
an install or something though.