Various notes on /usr unification

I'm going to have to call bullshit on that one. See every rolling distro ever.

> or config files get rewritten by upgrade processes to fit the new version
> and then the old version overwrites the changes when it's flushing state
> to disk while quitting

Well, first of all, don't overwrite config files. Store the new config somewhere else and give the user an interactive diff tool. Second, any service that writes state to a file that would get overwritten on a reinstall is broken. Any service that can't recognize state information from its previous version is broken.

> "Being replaced while running" is a scenario very few projects test for.

Because it rarely causes problems. The majority of Gentoo systems are upgraded continually while in use. The biggest problem I had after upgrading and recompiling every package installed on a system that hadn't been updated in six months, which included major gcc and glibc updates, was Firefox wouldn't open links sent to it from external programs until I restarted it.