[Discuss] Debian 12 vs. WSL 1

[Derek Martin]

On Fri, Jun 16, 2023 at 06:39:40PM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote:
> Derek Martin wrote: 
> > On Fri, Jun 16, 2023 at 10:05:54AM -0400, Rich Pieri wrote:
> > > Debian 12 was released last week(end). With it comes the mandatory
> > > change to merged /usr.
> > 
> > I'm curious if this change is thought to have any genuine practical
> > benefit, or if it's just the usual, "I'm a bored developer, time to
> > break something completely arbitrarily, that's working perfectly fine,
> > that people have been used to for literally decades, that will likely
> > cause random obscure problems, simply because it does not uphold some
> > arbitrary idea I have of design perfection..."
> 
> The original split was a hack caused by not having big enough
> disks. Remember that there's a cycle caused by adapting to tech
> and another cycle caused by adapting to politics:

I know this very well.  The point is, is there a strong, compelling
reason, now that it has been this way for again, literally decades, to
upend what has been done?

I do not see one.  "It is no longer necessary to do it this way," is
not one.   Change for no practical reason is bad change.

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