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petsoi via Linux

1 year ago

petsoi
1 year ago

Why bootc doesn’t require “/usr merge”

The systemd docs talk about UsrMerge, and while bootc works nicely with this, it does not require it and never will. In this blog we’ll touch on the rationale for that a bit. The first stumbling bl…

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Nanook

in reply to petsoi 1 year ago

I am tired of Poettering ruining Linux. Systemd, as an init replacement would have been fine, but as an operating system and of itself, no. I really don't want to Abandon Ubuntu but if they move forward with this bullshit it is not going to leave me a choice.

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Goingdown

in reply to petsoi 1 year ago

Blog makes valid point, but why on earth there would be any current Linux distribution without usr merge?

EDIT: Especially when every major Linux distributions have already implemented usr merge long time ago.

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PureTryOut

in reply to Goingdown 1 year ago

Alpine Linux doesn't have it yet, although as postmarketOS we convinced them of the need and are now hard at work to make it happen.

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nyan

in reply to Goingdown 1 year ago

Gentoo supports either configuration, as it does with a lot of things. My systems were installed with split /usr and I have no intention of changing that, because the merge adds no value for me.

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