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Re: No to StowFS!
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Thomas Bushnell BSG |
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Re: No to StowFS! |
Date: |
Wed, 08 Feb 2006 14:53:28 -0800 |
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karl@freefriends.org (Karl Berry) writes:
> Although I can believe that our own packages could be compiled to avoid
> /usr without an impossible amount of difficulty, this does not take
> account of users' own scripts and programs. Essentially all of which
> depend on /usr, since it has been around since day 1 of Unix. It would
> not be good for GNU if users could not run their longstanding scripts
> and processes without having to "port" it -- very frustrating waste of
> time. (All the POSIX madness has caused similar frustrations, but no
> /usr at all would be another whole level of agony.)
Actually, /usr was an invention in Version Seven.
It was created for reasons which made sense at the time, and are
entirely irrelevant today.
Still, we will surely need the /usr symlink for a long time for just
this reason.
We are, it seems to me, just fine the way we are now. We regard /usr
as deprecated for the Hurd, since the reasons for it are entirely
moot, and we have a symlink to preserve compatibility for just the
reasons you indicate.
- Re: No to StowFS!, (continued)
- Re: No to StowFS!, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2006/02/03
- Re: No to StowFS!, Filip Brcic, 2006/02/04
- Re: No to StowFS!, Richard M. Stallman, 2006/02/06
- Re: No to StowFS!, Karl Berry, 2006/02/06
- Re: No to StowFS!, Karl Berry, 2006/02/06
- Re: No to StowFS!, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2006/02/07
- Re: No to StowFS!, Karl Berry, 2006/02/07
- Re: No to StowFS!, Richard M. Stallman, 2006/02/08
- Re: No to StowFS!,
Thomas Bushnell BSG <=
- Re: No to StowFS!, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2006/02/07
- Re: No to StowFS!, Richard M. Stallman, 2006/02/06
- Re: No to StowFS!, Michael Heath, 2006/02/04
- Re: No to StowFS!, Richard M. Stallman, 2006/02/06
- Re: No to StowFS!, Filip Brcic, 2006/02/05
- Re: No to StowFS!, Gianluca Guida, 2006/02/05
- Re: No to StowFS!, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2006/02/05
- Re: No to StowFS!, Leonardo Pereira, 2006/02/05
- Re: No to StowFS!, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2006/02/05
- Re: No to StowFS!, Gianluca Guida, 2006/02/05