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On 13 March 2012 01:22, Joshua Kinard <kumba@g.o> wrote: |
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> We should be working to getting rid of /usr and bring it all back into /, |
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> then create temporary /usr symlinks to point programs in the right |
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> direction. After all, /usr was originally for user data, not system data, |
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> until someone cooked up /home (I don't know the full exact history here, so |
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> feel free to correct me). |
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I believe that the Art of Unix Programming* says that /usr was the |
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result of the original UNIX 4MB hard disk becoming full, and that they |
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chose /usr to mount a second one. Every definition since then has been |
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an attempt to justify preserving the split. |
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* On reflection, I may have read this elsewhere. |
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