The systemd docs talk about UsrMerge, and while bootc works nicely with this, it does not require it and never will. In this blog we’ll touch on the rationale for that a bit. The first stumbling bl…
Gentoo supports either configuration, as it does with a lot of things. My systems were installed with split /usr and I have no intention of changing that, because the merge adds no value for me.
Blog makes valid point, but why on earth there would be any current Linux distribution without usr merge?
EDIT: Especially when every major Linux distributions have already implemented usr merge long time ago.
Gentoo supports either configuration, as it does with a lot of things. My systems were installed with split /usr and I have no intention of changing that, because the merge adds no value for me.
Alpine Linux doesn’t have it yet, although as postmarketOS we convinced them of the need and are now hard at work to make it happen.