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From: William Hubbs <w.d.hubbs@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2011 21:53:13 +0000
Subject: Re: separate /usr/broken with udev extras
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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:
>=20
> > 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.
>=20
> 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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