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On 29/09/2013 18:33, Dale wrote: |
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>> that gnome is very hostile when it comes to KDE or choice is not news. |
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>> > And their dependency on systemd is just the usual madness. But they are |
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>> > not to blame for seperate /usr and the breakage it causes. |
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> If not, then what was it? You seem to know what it was that started it |
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> so why not share? |
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He already said it. Someone added a hard disk to a PDP-9 (or was it an 11?) |
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Literally. It all traces back to that. In those days there was no such |
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thing as volume management or raid. If you added a (seriously expensive) |
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disk the only feasible way to get it's storage in the system was to |
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mount it as a separate volume. |
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From that one single action this entire mess of separate /usr arose as |
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folks discovered more and more reasons to consider it good and keep it |
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around |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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