[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karl Berry) writes: > Although I can believe that our own packages could be compiled to avoid > /usr without an impossible amount of difficulty, this does not take > account of users' own scripts and programs. Essentially all of which > depend on /usr, since it has been around since day 1 of Unix. It would > not be good for GNU if users could not run their longstanding scripts > and processes without having to "port" it -- very frustrating waste of > time. (All the POSIX madness has caused similar frustrations, but no > /usr at all would be another whole level of agony.)
Actually, /usr was an invention in Version Seven. It was created for reasons which made sense at the time, and are entirely irrelevant today. Still, we will surely need the /usr symlink for a long time for just this reason. We are, it seems to me, just fine the way we are now. We regard /usr as deprecated for the Hurd, since the reasons for it are entirely moot, and we have a symlink to preserve compatibility for just the reasons you indicate. _______________________________________________ Bug-hurd mailing list Bug-hurd@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd
