## What is "merged `/usr`"
-"Merged `/usr`" describes a possible future standard directories scheme in which the `/{bin,sbin,lib*}/` directories have been made superfluous through replacing them by symlinks to their `/usr` equivalents (/usr/{bin,sbin,lib*}).
+"Merged `/usr`" describes a possible future standard directories scheme in which the `/{bin,sbin,lib*}/` directories have been made superfluous through replacing them by symlinks to their `/usr` equivalents (`/usr/{bin,sbin,lib*}`).
The motivation to get Debian systems to converge towards such a scheme is vastly documented elsewhere ([FDO's TheCaseForTheUsrMerge][0], [wiki.d.o UsrMerge][1]) but can be summarized as the following points:
* having separate `/` and `/usr` filesystems has been useful in the past for booting without initramfs onto a minimal root filesystem that carried just enough to mount the `/usr` filesystem later in the boot process. Given the evolution of physical hosts' capabilities, initramfs'es have been default in Debian (and elsewhere) for a long time, and most systems no longer have an intermediate state during boot in which they have only `/`, but not `/usr`, mounted.