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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] systemd installation location
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 09:07:13 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130930090713.5d1e9819@digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAG2nJkNBFt3mkK+9cXXJ7Y7sODg_ttguV=SB6PvO7411+p_5Mg@mail.gmail.com>

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On Mon, 30 Sep 2013 10:42:37 +0800, Mark David Dumlao wrote:

> > What was /usr's original purpose?  
> /usr was originally the home directory. Programs were moved there
> because Unix didn't fit into a single disk.
> 
> http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/2010-December/074114.html

Thanks for that link, it does a good job of explaining how we got in this
mess.


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Neil Bothwick

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  reply	other threads:[~2013-09-30  8:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-29 19:52 [gentoo-user] systemd installation location William Hubbs
2013-09-30  0:54 ` Daniel Campbell
2013-09-30  1:17   ` Mark David Dumlao
2013-09-30  1:22     ` Daniel Campbell
2013-09-30  1:51       ` Mark David Dumlao
2013-09-30  2:01         ` Daniel Campbell
2013-09-30  2:25           ` Mark David Dumlao
2013-09-30  2:31             ` Daniel Campbell
2013-09-30  4:13               ` Pandu Poluan
2013-09-30  5:08                 ` Mark David Dumlao
2013-09-30  1:40   ` Mark David Dumlao
2013-09-30  1:50     ` Daniel Campbell
2013-09-30  2:05       ` Mark David Dumlao
2013-09-30  2:15         ` Daniel Campbell
2013-09-30  2:42           ` Mark David Dumlao
2013-09-30  8:07             ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2013-09-30  6:24         ` pk
2013-09-30  6:45           ` Alan McKinnon
2013-09-30 22:14             ` pk
2013-09-30 22:43               ` Neil Bothwick
2013-10-01  6:16               ` Alan McKinnon
2013-10-01 19:59                 ` pk
2013-09-30 16:06           ` [gentoo-user] " Martin Vaeth
2013-09-30 17:47           ` [gentoo-user] " Mark David Dumlao

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