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Re: Red Hat is moving from / to /usr/

From:  md-AT-Linux.IT (Marco d'Itri)
To:  debian-devel-AT-lists.debian.org
Subject:  Re: Red Hat is moving from / to /usr/
Date:  Wed, 7 Dec 2011 11:34:34 +0100
Message-ID:  <20111207103434.GB16087@bongo.bofh.it>
Archive-link:  Article, Thread

On Dec 07, Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de> wrote:

> Give everyone at least 10 years headstart to migrate existing systems
> away from having a seperate /usr partition and for people to stop making
> a seperate /usr on new installs.
Actually, Red Hat's goal *is* to support a separate /usr, they just want
to have the initramfs mount it.

I am not really looking forward to keep reverting these changes in my
package, and since Red Hat controls most Linux infrastructure now other
packages will face the same problem.

-- 
ciao,
Marco


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