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My understanding is that it's fine to have a separate /usr, it just needs to be mounted by your initrd. Trying to ensure that everything that could possibly be needed to mount /usr is in / turned out to be a lot more difficult than building an initrd with the relevant tools in it.

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There may be ways to do it right now, but it's hard to fight the fact that Lennart doesn't want it to be supported. He's already thinking of deprecating initramfs builders that don't have systemd running inside (which causes trouble for Arch). If systemd continues to clash with initramfs tools it takes human resources away from working on things Lennart doesn't care about.

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