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On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 09:57:15PM +0000, David Leverton wrote: |
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> William Hubbs wrote: |
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> > The reason the split happened is pretty straight forward, and every other |
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> > "justification" for continuing it was come up with after the fact. |
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> I keep hearing this, but I really don't see how it's relevant. I'm sure |
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> you'll find lots of things in your life that you use for some purpose |
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> other than what they were originally invented for¹, and there's no |
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> reason why /usr should be any different. All that matters is whether or |
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> not the newer reasons for having separate /usr actually provide a benefit. |
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And I would argue that the maintenance cost of having separate /usr in a |
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general sense is much higher than the benefit it provides. |
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The problem with it is that it is next to impossible nowadays to define |
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what should go in / vs what should go in /usr. |
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William |
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