From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1S7sOB-0005sT-3v for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 14 Mar 2012 17:53:31 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4E278E0933; Wed, 14 Mar 2012 17:53:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB226E0925 for ; Wed, 14 Mar 2012 17:52:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.26.5] (ip98-164-193-252.oc.oc.cox.net [98.164.193.252]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: zmedico) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 645861EC002 for ; Wed, 14 Mar 2012 17:52:49 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4F60DAF0.6090701@gentoo.org> Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 10:52:48 -0700 From: Zac Medico User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686 on x86_64; rv:10.0.1) Gecko/20120304 Thunderbird/10.0.1 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Let's redesign the entire filesystem! [was newsitem: unmasking udev-181] References: <20120311022706.GA26296@linux1> <20120311173355.GB6599@linux1> <4F5EA152.80604@gentoo.org> <1830472.hFCkaEEef2@bart> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.3.5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 85fca245-8fea-4e51-83bf-fba63a78d3bd X-Archives-Hash: fc7cb61ae602ff944c84a2f3fa8e1de8 On 03/14/2012 05:00 AM, James Cloos wrote: >>>>>> "MS" == Marc Schiffbauer writes: > > MS> IIRC usr = unified system resources (not an abbrev. for "user") > > Nope. It is in fact for user. > > Before sysv created /home, bsd used /usr for user dirs. > > /usr/bin et all came later. Anyway, "unified system resources" makes a great retro-active acronym, don't you think? What's in a name? -- Thanks, Zac