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by 0xfffafaCrash 2486 days ago
> Myth #11: Instead of merging / into /usr it would make a lot more sense to merge /usr into /.

> Fact: This would make the separation between vendor-supplied OS resources and machine-specific even worse, thus making OS snapshots and network/container sharing of it much harder and non-atomic, and clutter the root file system with a multitude of new directories.

https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/TheCaseFor...