Anno domini 2025 Mon, 10 Nov 18:22:57 -0800 William Morder via tde-users scripsit:
On Monday 10 November 2025 10:26:53 William Morder wrote:
On Monday 10 November 2025 05:51:43 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp via tde-users wrote:
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... and when you are at it, use adecent kernel! I run Devuan ceres since ages and never had big issues. At least use excalibur as it's out now.
Nik
Okay, so I have been pondering an upgrade to Excalibur. After doing a bit of searching, it does seem to be an LTS release.
However, I also read about this new development, named usrmerge, for example: https://www.devuan.org/os/announce/excalibur-usrmerge-announce-2024-02-20.ht...
Note this part: "first ensure there is sufficient disk space to accomodate the merge"; by which I assume that they mean on my root partition. It shouldn't touch my home directory, I believe. (I hope!) On my root partition, nowadays I keep about 20 gb to spare, just for this kind of thing.
My home directory is rather cluttered with too much junk at the moment, and inconvenient to do a backup, but I can manage it, maybe over the weekend.
I wonder if this usrmerge was implemented earlier, when Excalibur was still in testing?
usrmerge has been there for at least 2 years. It gave me repeated problems when upgrading systems, but not recently - well, might be 'cause I've been thgrough that upgrade process all along. In the end it's just moving binaries to diffenet places and not doing it well. Nothing breaking, but installation will not proceed if you run into an issue till you move stuff by hand.
Nik
Bill
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