Debian still having trouble with merged /usr

Posted Apr 14, 2022 2:14 UTC (Thu) by mirabilos (subscriber, #84359)
In reply to: Debian still having trouble with merged /usr by rahulsundaram
Parent article: Debian still having trouble with merged /usr

This was in reference to getting rid of /bin; as far as I am told, Poettering/Fedora still hae thatr, as symlink.

Debian still having trouble with merged /usr

Posted Apr 14, 2022 3:21 UTC (Thu) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link] (2 responses)

> This was in reference to getting rid of /bin; as far as I am told, Poettering/Fedora still hae thatr, as symlink.

To give credit where it is due, Harold Hoyer and Kay Sievers put together the original proposal for Fedora and did all of the work involved. Getting rid of any associated symlinks is not part of the plan.

Debian still having trouble with merged /usr

Posted Apr 14, 2022 6:40 UTC (Thu) by smurf (subscriber, #17840) [Link] (1 responses)

> Getting rid of any associated symlinks is not part of the plan.

It's also basically impossible. You will not convince the world to replace all instances of '#!/bin/sh'. Nor would you want to.

Debian still having trouble with merged /usr

Posted Apr 14, 2022 7:24 UTC (Thu) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]

> Nor would you want to.

I want to, just out of aesthetic reasons. I periodically test that in containers and actually pretty much everything works.

But yeah, it'll take at least a decade to transition to /bin-less systems.