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Ciaran McCreesh posted on Sat, 30 Jul 2011 11:46:00 +0100 as excerpted: |
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> It's important to consider the timeline here. Separate /usr was |
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> accidentally broken by a sudden increase in dependencies from base |
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> system packages to desktopy things. It was only later that certain |
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> people decided that "oh, separate /usr is a bad idea anyway", and they |
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> did so because they couldn't figure out how to fix the mess they'd |
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> caused. This is very much a case of carelessly letting the horse escape |
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> and then trying to convince everyone that no-one needs a horse anyway... |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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