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On 18-07-2012 14:11:07 -0400, Michael Mol wrote: |
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> Worse, I think /home to /Users is an *egregiously* poor choice; any |
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> native English speaker who has rudimenatry (or even intimate) |
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> knowledge of how things previously worked would be very likely to |
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> confuse /Users with the historical /usr. |
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You *are* aware OSX uses this, right? |
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> ... Heck, I know a local guy who |
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> has to struggle to get newish versions of Python, CUPS and other |
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> things onto an AIX box, because those are the tools he has to use to |
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> satisfy company needs. Based on IRC conversations, it sounds like he |
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> spends at least 5% of his time (that *I* know about, anyway) trying to |
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> wedge new software into old systems. |
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How is this related to something like a /usr merge? |
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> Ugh. I've gone offtopic. This email went from having anything to do |
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> with udev to being about filesystems layouts. |
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Seems to me we're in a different thread here :) |
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Fabian Groffen |
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Gentoo on a different level |
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