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 4.77) (envelope-from ) id 1SrYh9-0004Oy-W5 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 18 Jul 2012 18:09:56 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5857DE0566; Wed, 18 Jul 2012 18:09:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yx0-f181.google.com (mail-yx0-f181.google.com [209.85.213.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14840E072C for ; Wed, 18 Jul 2012 18:08:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yenl3 with SMTP id l3so2047691yen.40 for ; Wed, 18 Jul 2012 11:08:41 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=dee.su; s=google; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=oOm6pAanhBXj+xW6P5Qgp+e09OBNzVEN2KFRW8dqjVg=; b=JleAC+37BowcrrgHFOTc9nCq/fsu/wFod73N2Vxk+SLr5hRLUnHkSDo5gMKTkCD6S2 LZbxqeJiTpbXNhs42R1Pp1uoUKdot10P4VT7ZIqQKDyXqFY1TRJXeRb18UgBqiXCyhGQ 4iDoTahMQDhMwq1EHESowJl6OO7oo2/JeooaU= X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:x-gm-message-state; bh=oOm6pAanhBXj+xW6P5Qgp+e09OBNzVEN2KFRW8dqjVg=; b=XYNGeKE4tfXlzWBTG6FDENf0zNPNG5F+mmbhuZgWtU0kXHMsX9KcSJX7A8ysonf2xY adCDKsqOHSyTC1v6x0DwtLvWDfougbd3rK5hJhGpOwqL6A1fSp8GEzKRzrKR/gMpG6Ut CYYvoAdUcwG+rx5d9NWf+aY6bm8+TqtbWt14Yk2nqNl29Bul4X1dfvYLHcEvzX9XDDI7 OliPe6oy5/PwwTmT3d1YevZbInGRMabDN7gsosZfeMBnSma7B1WSv+BdaXssGgpHx1FN +ulpH5vBw3QKzhrzl78Fr9pQWxaTULXjbAlzzE2r1WkHzIEjqjWx3D+WXqdU4N9NXlk+ 7Htg== Received: by 10.50.163.99 with SMTP id yh3mr2907652igb.53.1342634920911; Wed, 18 Jul 2012 11:08:40 -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 10.42.86.139 with HTTP; Wed, 18 Jul 2012 11:08:20 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <5005D70D.3060108@gentoo.org> <1342566449.18313.38.camel@TesterTop4> <50063368.8080106@gentoo.org> <20120718101027.55dd00fe@pomiocik.lan> <5006B7A4.6010202@gentoo.org> <20120718161351.GA19044@serenity.o.westcall.spb.ru> From: Maxim Kammerer Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2012 21:08:20 +0300 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Opinion against /usr merge To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQkyvW/iKrICe/matl2tDNZeVhkV/TIaSUd4LR03rt2mkHh/F79kH+oi2DOmbxZwPMa/G3sY X-Archives-Salt: 4003af7a-bd3a-4f21-a5e6-81dbb34c942d X-Archives-Hash: c9dd18a52a258b74fa1889d97d6876a9 On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 8:35 PM, Canek Pel=E1ez Vald=E9s = wrote: > But it must be clear that all the rationale behind > said division was invented after the fact, I would say that the rationale was not =93invented=94, but rather adapted to an evolving system. > and (as Rob Landley said in > his email [2]) maintained "for decades by bureaucrats who never > question _why_ they're doing things". I am surprised that anyone took that rant seriously. It is just a rant, ignoring evolution of systems (where initially arbitrary configuration changes and gets meaning with time), and treating developers who have to deal with backwards compatibility issues and established usage conventions as thick bureaucrats. --=20 Maxim Kammerer Libert=E9 Linux: http://dee.su/liberte