Implementing /Usr Merge in Alpine (alpinelinux.org)

>and non-merged installations upgrading to it will break.

This is unacceptable. Updating your operating system should not cause it to break. Alpine should be responsible for the migration and not forcing users to do manual work else breaking their machines.

I feel like they jumped the gun on this article. 3.22 does not have a merge-usr package/script in http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.22/main and 3.23 does not yet exist otherwise I would test the merge script right now on a throw-away VM. Looking at the merge request it appears the Finish step is not yet completed or the pipeline was skipped or I am reading this incorrectly. Perhaps they are just missing an estimated deployment date in the article.

Man, freebsd is just so clean and sensible by comparison to linux these days:

https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?hier

Does the 2nd and 3rd sentences not read right or is confusing to anyone else?

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