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Various notes on /usr unification

Various notes on /usr unification

Posted Mar 1, 2012 8:32 UTC (Thu) by AndreE (subscriber, #60148)
In reply to: Various notes on /usr unification by russell
Parent article: Various notes on /usr unification

Yes, specific knowledge becomes obsolete because the entire system is more predictable. That is a good thing.

I don't think you are going to convince anyone that having to learn the arbitrary determinations of binary and library location (that differ from distro to distro) ,is a better state of affairs than knowing everything will be found under /usr


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