The case for the /usr merge [LWN.net]

The case for the /usr merge

Posted Jan 27, 2012 15:51 UTC (Fri) by landley (guest, #6789)
Parent article: The case for the /usr merge

I've been symlinking /bin /sbin and /lib to their /usr equivalents in my systems since 2001. I've ranted about it multiple times:

And so on...

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Posted Jan 27, 2012 16:32 UTC (Fri) by mezcalero (subscriber, #45103) [Link] (1 responses)

Very useful stuff, thanks. I have linked your mail from 2010 now on the wiki text.

Thanks,

Lennart

Posted Jan 28, 2012 0:20 UTC (Sat) by landley (guest, #6789) [Link]

And from there it hit http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3519952 where people who were actually around at the time are commenting on it...

Rob