From: William Hubbs <w.d.hubbs@gmail.com>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: separate /usr/broken with udev extras
Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2011 21:53:13 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110730215313.GA21674@linux1> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110730204023.GA21402@linux1>
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On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 11:23:00PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> On Jul 30, Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> wrote:
>
> > We just gave up supporting the split of tools in / vs. /usr. It does
> You did, as shown many times other distributions surely did not.
>
> I don't even know /how/ I could stop supporting a standalone /usr: some
> distributions actually support upgrading a system to the next release,
> and this cannot require repartitioning.
Right, I have had a separate /usr on all of my installed systems for
years, and I don't know of a reason having this shouldn't be supported.
I would rather see us work on fixing the tools so that it can still be
done.
William
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-30 21:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-30 20:40 separate /usr/broken with udev extras William Hubbs
2011-07-30 20:56 ` Kay Sievers
2011-07-30 21:23 ` Marco d'Itri
2011-07-30 21:45 ` Kay Sievers
2011-07-30 21:53 ` William Hubbs [this message]
2011-07-30 22:08 ` Kay Sievers
2011-07-30 22:14 ` William Hubbs
2011-07-30 22:20 ` Kay Sievers
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