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On 03/13/2012 07:54, James Broadhead wrote: |
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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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Sounds like how a lot of UNIXy things came into being. This is why I think |
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/usr should be merged back into /, not the other way around. Although, both |
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approaches essentially achieve the same effect in the end, once you move |
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/etc and a few other bits, then point the kernel at "/usr". |
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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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