From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D1BDE1382C5 for ; Thu, 1 Feb 2018 19:25:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 10148E0A89; Thu, 1 Feb 2018 19:25:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pg0-x22d.google.com (mail-pg0-x22d.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400e:c05::22d]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 89598E0A6B for ; Thu, 1 Feb 2018 19:25:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-pg0-x22d.google.com with SMTP id w17so12869841pgv.6 for ; Thu, 01 Feb 2018 11:25:44 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id :subject:to:content-transfer-encoding; bh=Td2jZuz+tLZ82bFbFjVHatdVJLahkP2p7lHITuu5XV0=; b=CDAIUjwxkxBnZ01jBMpP9/w8GEJrENBVJw1H4antpUUavxLqw6ZK69N79GVxVPdsdW kJf/Anzi/6KtyH5SBmedE6LK5GmB5VT3S0wOkftgAOORXKfxKpaq7i/uueR2m1acRehS Uf/TDq5msEy2xE+N8YIQa+++tZXX69hE1S/UBp2QNSSNIhkcRH5Rgm0LxK3vG/dJ3Gk9 W8hM5vLLi4A12jQQDzDODiCdfNF/U22KYMBl0YKtV2D+DOoxnd0HigR/UG5rqIfcLWBU ViJsmJ6mYiK7Noy0nk0tHRyM/HLI1xmhAE3T3O6xLn2FmagdF+NeUWnV2M7AP0vEtQdE H64A== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from :date:message-id:subject:to:content-transfer-encoding; bh=Td2jZuz+tLZ82bFbFjVHatdVJLahkP2p7lHITuu5XV0=; b=rhWTB8iM9mox+KgICw2zNwRDvukaEbUxOKOvqRLOeRWFSgSrtc1zOdroBHPZQP+L+Q q/U7o+P87W4ByLZNNzFRmsp9mBXZgehKoCKYnoYHKlNto/l3kPj02seiyRm8h1k6qLnn D/eNP+d4ZxcOShyWq50IHyvJr3VBRta/+Rl7XFhfqUxpL6PnggwYGaHgzChkaN535N+U rlRDsnQ0yTUK3nqp/5C/kVLVCwjYWiFikIAODObgL8SMcxnwI1NXVIaNfOnOOAKmv2wW MJT/zcMG8jHXAugIq/ELyHGk/fKuZiku35waznYHt/P8SlojcDJZwuNR9MmnKuadUaS2 d93A== X-Gm-Message-State: AKwxyteaim4TEcg3ARYWFQc7m7EvdCVSccjngwTwzxW+EzJotr6HIGu3 sNmd09lcEVn1MHMc47l5Ce3eSTYQkbL6R4P+X1iuFA== X-Google-Smtp-Source: AH8x227YNiPJFSnWBpoEboHp+DawW+j6lZ3q6U1YHyf+Ast5IAXEjNrgYigNyyEeE9ws0QKhhUWzdmpcU1SoXpHtKUk= X-Received: by 10.98.166.22 with SMTP id t22mr37286568pfe.80.1517513142978; Thu, 01 Feb 2018 11:25:42 -0800 (PST) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: freemanrich@gmail.com Received: by 10.100.134.1 with HTTP; Thu, 1 Feb 2018 11:25:42 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: <2979311.yKovLQH099@peak> <20180201184757.GT2030@ca.inter.net> <20180201185037.0ff6f5dd@digimed.co.uk> From: Rich Freeman Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2018 14:25:42 -0500 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 9lnf6uL8-imI6I3MBlg2Q15n-8M Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] A little help for non-native English speakers To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: fdd1719c-b57e-4076-9f28-f1e8b7c04a00 X-Archives-Hash: 2300531a199839204ed58712bdfdbf85 On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 2:09 PM, Grant Taylor w= rote: > > IMHO that makes the name of the "/etc" directory all that much more > entertaining. As in Dennis R. and Ken T. couldn't be bothered to come up > with more directory names than they had, e.g. /bin /lib /boot /var =E2=80= =A6 (I > can't be bothered to think of or look for more.) > Along those lines the original reason for the / vs /usr split was that the original developers were accommodating a machine that had two hard drives and needed to split things up. There may very well be good reasons to preserve the distinction today, but those aren't actually historical. And of course there are two modern approaches: 1. The more traditional FHS approach of / for boot-essential and /usr mounted later during bootstrapping. 2. The Fedora /usr merge approach of sticking all read-only distro-supplied files in /usr with the goal that they be contained and read-only (think squashfs/signatures/etc), with bootstrapping covered by the initramfs. --=20 Rich