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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Let's redesign the entire filesystem! [was newsitem: unmasking udev-181]
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 17:53:31
Message-Id: 4F60DAF0.6090701@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Let's redesign the entire filesystem! [was newsitem: unmasking udev-181] by James Cloos
1 On 03/14/2012 05:00 AM, James Cloos wrote:
2 >>>>>> "MS" == Marc Schiffbauer <mschiff@g.o> writes:
3 >
4 > MS> IIRC usr = unified system resources (not an abbrev. for "user")
5 >
6 > Nope. It is in fact for user.
7 >
8 > Before sysv created /home, bsd used /usr for user dirs.
9 >
10 > /usr/bin et all came later.
11
12 Anyway, "unified system resources" makes a great retro-active acronym,
13 don't you think? What's in a name?
14 --
15 Thanks,
16 Zac

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