Re: HTML format documentation

[Mike Castle]

On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 10:19:53PM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> The point of having binaries in `/bin' instead of `/usr/bin' is so
> that you can run them without mounting /usr.  Instead of figuring out
> which shared libraries they depend on, copying them to /lib and
> remembering to do so every time you update them, it's easier to just
> link them statically.

Also, if an upgrade goes bad and /lib gets hosed (running out of disk
space for instance),  you're possibly stuck with an unusuable system.

mrc
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