Bug#845480: /bin/ps depends on /usr/lib/... which makes the system unbootable

[Don Armstrong]

On Wed, 30 Nov 2016, Klaus Ethgen wrote:
> No, it worked well for decades and it was exactly why you have small
> root and resizable /usr on other medias.

It worked because of extraordinary effort by DDs to continuously migrate
libraries from /usr to / any time a binary or library in /bin, /sbin, or
/lib grew a new feature.

And that's not why it existed in the first place, either. See:
http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/2010-December/074114.html

And you can still have them split; you just need an initrd. You can even
use something tiny, like: https://github.com/chris-se/tiny-initramfs

> It start getting broken when systemd start taking over the world.

Correlation is not causation. It has been broken multiple times over the
past two decades. Debian has just stopped supporting it after the switch
to systemd.

> Well, why should it have too many changes? It works great. And it is
> that well-hung that there is simply not to much to change.

If that's the case, you'd think that someone who actually wanted SysV to
be supported going forward would step up and maintain it. But no one
has. So either it's not such a small amount of work, no one who can do
the work is interested in maintaining SysV any longer, or no one knows
that they should be doing the work.

This is Debian. If you want SysV maintained, you should do the work.

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