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 1S7QK8-00045X-3u for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 13 Mar 2012 11:55:28 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0DE86E0A92; Tue, 13 Mar 2012 11:55:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gy0-f181.google.com (mail-gy0-f181.google.com [209.85.160.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BD57E09F0 for ; Tue, 13 Mar 2012 11:54:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ghbz13 with SMTP id z13so556993ghb.40 for ; Tue, 13 Mar 2012 04:54:25 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=vg8lUIujdo/rM6JY+CNricHaFjMlcEeYbzoURdmyr2c=; b=N7IDXyi6qfjRthUH1hPNlHr01WXdyqgxFjrmmMMcGwloZ7fX+sy59jXHyGFAM8ba8w CXCJPFcU24YwuvoJvoVq7mI+IbZ/kbWwYHyocfs9mgmU6JBkyRZ0EUErdR7aes6+WyAq qs6cICK3ZOzGwgjd93YuAcx3Sco0a8Z3Jt9vVgIJrSByERNTIAigshS4vynPozLcv6s5 bGiXoFtaJWABYHRe95wQw2Jr3vwQLnN1Qx+5mfgu5W5txMBUlgPk0VjHj5JOlM1hgOCi qRg/PtkRAfTM7cpRMGFD51H5TsY1M0iuaGTiN0byrTQIoMlU9IuUYwHCFoPh9L2SbiZz rFTw== Received: by 10.50.180.230 with SMTP id dr6mr4251973igc.25.1331639665321; Tue, 13 Mar 2012 04:54:25 -0700 (PDT) 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 Received: by 10.42.228.129 with HTTP; Tue, 13 Mar 2012 04:54:05 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4F5EA152.80604@gentoo.org> References: <20120311022706.GA26296@linux1> <4F5C1BE9.3040609@gentoo.org> <20120311173355.GB6599@linux1> <4F5EA152.80604@gentoo.org> From: James Broadhead Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 11:54:05 +0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Let's redesign the entire filesystem! [was newsitem: unmasking udev-181] To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 8c01cd1c-f5bb-4e7e-89d5-d7f8a60170f1 X-Archives-Hash: 283c12ff0267641cb9d0f4d9babb33d3 On 13 March 2012 01:22, Joshua Kinard wrote: > We should be working to getting rid of /usr and bring it all back into /, > then create temporary /usr symlinks to point programs in the right > direction. =C2=A0After all, /usr was originally for user data, not system= data, > until someone cooked up /home (I don't know the full exact history here, = so > feel free to correct me). > I believe that the Art of Unix Programming* says that /usr was the result of the original UNIX 4MB hard disk becoming full, and that they chose /usr to mount a second one. Every definition since then has been an attempt to justify preserving the split. * On reflection, I may have read this elsewhere.