Bug#1050001: Third-party tooling support for merged-/usr vs symlink farms

[Ansgar <ansgar@43-1.org>]

Hi,

On Fri, 2023-09-01 at 13:42 +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote:
> the claim that Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Docker, Rsync and whatnot no
> longer work on Debian/Ubuntu/Fedora/Arch/SUSE/CentOS/RHEL/etc

I think this is a valid point that should be discussed.

How do third-party tools cope with merged-/usr (as implemented in
Debian and elsewhere)?  And how is the support for the proposed symlink
farm layout?

Has anyone done prior investigation on this?

Are there already experimental systems converted to the new layout or
some way to convert an existing system to this for testing (not on a
production system)? It might be interesting to experiment with the new
layout.

Ansgar