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  • Yeah, I read that manual but it didn’t answer my question.

    The big problem is that the arch wiki describes a setup with nested subvolumes first (in a subvolume below @ or whatever your root subvolume is), but then suggests in a tip to use a subvolume directly below the top level subvolume. The limitations mentioned in that manual don’t seem to apply to either setup, as they would prevent swap from working, which is not the case. I have tested both setups and they work fine — or so it seems. I’m worried there is some hidden gotcha I’m missing.

    in addition to that, some of those limitations simply don’t apply to my setup, as I only have a single device.











  • Old version docs tend to offer you a redirect to more recent docs

    Sadly, the docs, I’ve worked with (openstack and ansible) frequently, don’t do this. They have a button to go to the latest version of the docs, but not to the equivalent page on the latest version. This means I have to find the equivalent page again, from the integrated search usually.

    And yes, a lot can change between versions. New features can get added that solve your problems or older stuff can get removed.





  • The python3 package should contain the entire python standard library

    You are free to use a distro which does not split packages, favorite distro, Arch Linux (btw).

    Or, you can install the recommended dependencies of python3. Testing in a container, the python3 package pulls:

    root@a72bd55a3c1a:/# apt install python3
    Reading package lists... Done
    Building dependency tree... Done
    Reading state information... Done
    The following additional packages will be installed:
      ca-certificates krb5-locales libexpat1 libgpm2 libgssapi-krb5-2 libk5crypto3
      libkeyutils1 libkrb5-3 libkrb5support0 libncursesw6 libnsl2
      libpython3-stdlib libpython3.11-minimal libpython3.11-stdlib libreadline8
      libsqlite3-0 libssl3 libtirpc-common libtirpc3 media-types openssl
      python3-minimal python3.11 python3.11-minimal readline-common
    Suggested packages:
      gpm krb5-doc krb5-user python3-doc python3-tk python3-venv python3.11-venv
      python3.11-doc binutils binfmt-support readline-doc
    The following NEW packages will be installed:
      ca-certificates krb5-locales libexpat1 libgpm2 libgssapi-krb5-2 libk5crypto3
      libkeyutils1 libkrb5-3 libkrb5support0 libncursesw6 libnsl2
      libpython3-stdlib libpython3.11-minimal libpython3.11-stdlib libreadline8
      libsqlite3-0 libssl3 libtirpc-common libtirpc3 media-types openssl python3
      python3-minimal python3.11 python3.11-minimal readline-common
    0 upgraded, 26 newly installed, 0 to remove and 18 not upgraded.
    

    python3-venv python3.11-venv

    I find it odd, because debian does this by default, actually. They account for usecases like yours, and instead you have to edit a config file or use a command line flag to get it to not install recommended dependencies.