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From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr
Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2012 17:13:22
Message-Id: 20228.34930.732592.657243@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr by "Michał Górny"
1 >>>>> On Wed, 4 Jan 2012, Micha³ Górny wrote:
2
3 >> What mistakes?
4
5 > The mistake of introducing a pointless separation based on a rule of
6 > thumb which becomes more and more blurry over time, and hacking
7 > packages just to make it work.
8
9 There's really nothing pointless or blurry about this separation.
10 The FHS has a nice definition: "The contents of the root filesystem
11 must be adequate to boot, restore, recover, and/or repair the system."
12
13 Ulrich

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