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 1S9cer-0000G2-RH for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 19 Mar 2012 13:29:58 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4D6BAE0923; Mon, 19 Mar 2012 13:29:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-we0-f181.google.com (mail-we0-f181.google.com [74.125.82.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D185E0CBB for ; Mon, 19 Mar 2012 13:28:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: by werm13 with SMTP id m13so6924265wer.40 for ; Mon, 19 Mar 2012 06:27:59 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=f21lyUvuWvkQnGeoN0f72/mF8UIt+mnmfu9yCYokZMk=; b=Z7OCB0Wwec269hwHmjVExzvJxLXRSIYKO3Tl8YsAvJpkq6gwSR1A7YEhgr3+HHwO1i lqhAEu6JRwrQhYRidv/NycypqN8P6v/UYmqeEQEf7wTDBFTMS1qv0VgvsTqC1squo3f1 cGrXpfFOr2AyDichul/2yR6cBqOawOyTiOG6UJgXDqCeYTJDcoQ0DUeskuq+0Uklvq7q 3xEgAx5IrNkSmGCfO7iS9uIx/pL519UA/sKyZOXCytS9iAfJtK1ehbIcyA9KRaPDs3Ik N6tW2ui6pq7KHxYkZ438QI+8Bvxf9We9lcU8x2SkaHA+mLdVlW7fXOZZ6Jo8rwWUEsKh Tf9Q== 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 Received: by 10.180.102.129 with SMTP id fo1mr19936050wib.6.1332163679916; Mon, 19 Mar 2012 06:27:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.223.8.68 with HTTP; Mon, 19 Mar 2012 06:27:59 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20120319131701.3ba79187@digimed.co.uk> References: <709768995.843751.1331957483491.JavaMail.open-xchange@email.1and1.com> <4F6444A5.50503@alyf.net> <20120319131701.3ba79187@digimed.co.uk> Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 06:27:59 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] The End Is Near ... or, get the vaseline, they're on the way! From: Mark Knecht To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: d3ddd38d-8328-4090-a928-03d5123cb496 X-Archives-Hash: e34d6d3256cca83ea4a8f6af042cb704 On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 6:17 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 17 Mar 2012 09:00:37 +0100, Andrea Conti wrote: > >> Personally I stopped bothering with a separate /usr ages ago, so I don't >> really care. > > Having given this some thought recently, I am coming round to the view > that the problem is /usr itself. It may have had a place when boot disks > were limited in size, but I really don't see the point it in at all > nowadays. This whole question of which bin directory does code belong in > should be "why do we need so many bin directories"? > > > -- > Neil Bothwick > > This is a test of the emergency tagline stealing system. +1 http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/UsrMove - Mark