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On 03/14/2012 16:55, Zac Medico wrote: |
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>> Deprecation of this practice would mean that people could type |
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>> /bin/command instead of /usr/bin/command in situations where absolute |
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>> paths are necessary. We could symlink things in /usr to rootfs for |
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>> compatibility with legacy software. In a more extreme case, we could |
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>> symlink /usr to /, which would make plenty of sense given that we do not |
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>> need a separate /usr at all. |
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> I'm not seeing any compelling benefits here that would justify a lack of |
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> conformity with other *nix distros. It seems almost as though it's an |
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> attempt to be different for the sake of being different, perhaps a |
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> symptom of something like NIH syndrome. |
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Gentoo, by its very nature, has always been regarded as somewhat |
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non-conformist. When Gentoo first popped onto the scene, most other distros |
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didn't do colors in the terminal. We did. And it all branches out from there. |
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Joshua Kinard |
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Gentoo/MIPS |
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kumba@g.o |
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4096R/D25D95E3 2011-03-28 |
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"The past tempts us, the present confuses us, the future frightens us. And |
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our lives slip away, moment by moment, lost in that vast, terrible in-between." |
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--Emperor Turhan, Centauri Republic |
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