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From: John Nilsson <john@milsson.nu>
To: purslow@sympatico.ca
Cc: Gentoo Devt <gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] /usr/portage --> /var/portage
Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 06:51:24 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040117055124.GA17569@newkid> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040116224507.GD2518@sympatico.ca>; from purslow@sympatico.ca on Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 23:45:07 +0100

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> i always understood it to mean shareable among users on the system:
> eg fonts & docs, which everyone wants access to.

A common missunderstanding is that usr means user. usr means unix system  
resources. (Mabey a rename to lsr,gsr or just sr might correct this?)

/John

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  reply	other threads:[~2004-01-17  5:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-15  6:48 [gentoo-dev] /usr/portage --> /var/portage Meder Bakirov
2004-01-15  7:06 ` Seemant Kulleen
2004-01-15  7:28   ` Meder Bakirov
2004-01-15 14:40     ` purslow
2004-01-15  7:36   ` Jason Stubbs
2004-01-15  8:42     ` Georgi Georgiev
2004-01-15 14:09       ` Thomas T. Veldhouse
2004-01-15 14:27         ` Chris Gianelloni
2004-01-16  4:58           ` Meder Bakirov
2004-01-15  9:12 ` Philippe Coulonges
2004-01-15 14:29   ` Jeremy Maitin-Shepard
2004-01-15 19:29 ` Matthew Kennedy
2004-01-15 21:54   ` Jeremy Maitin-Shepard
2004-01-19  6:27     ` Drake Wyrm
2004-01-19  7:53       ` Jeremy Maitin-Shepard
2004-01-19  9:16       ` Paul de Vrieze
2004-01-19 15:26         ` Jeremy Maitin-Shepard
2004-01-20  1:22           ` Drake Wyrm
2004-01-20  2:39             ` Jeremy Maitin-Shepard
2004-01-19 22:27         ` Drake Wyrm
2004-01-20  8:57           ` Paul de Vrieze
2004-01-20 17:22             ` david
2004-01-16  8:06   ` Eivind Tagseth
2004-01-16 20:44     ` Matthew Kennedy
2004-01-16 22:45       ` purslow
2004-01-17  5:51         ` John Nilsson [this message]
2004-01-16 22:49       ` Jeremy Maitin-Shepard
2004-01-16  8:10   ` Phil Richards

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