About the Devuan excision
About the Devuan excision
Posted Jul 1, 2026 14:32 UTC (Wed) by pizza (subscriber, #46)In reply to: About the Devuan excision by Cyberax
Parent article: Xsnow "protestware" in Debian
> Mount units are a particular disaster area.
If mount units are a "disaster area" then the previous status quo mudball (static /etc/fstab + autofs + bespoke distro scripts that keeled over when you stray off the beaten path and/or something inevitably went wrong, no meaningful dependency tracking vs the filesystem(s) being online/accessible, etc) was an extinction-level-event asteroid impact.
Is it perfect? far from it. But it's still a *huge* net improvement.