On Sun, May 30, 1999 at 09:01:19PM -0400, Alex Yukhimets wrote: > > Yes, difficult.
How so? > And unnecessary, and useless, and inconvenient, and > destroying standards and traditions Oh come on. We change the pathes of almost any upstream packaging every day. >, requiring change in a partition scheme of MANY > existing systems, This is a point. But it shouldn't be too hard to find a different partition scheme. > not-easily-extendible to another window system which may > come, ??? For what do we have our packaging system? > overcrowding already OVERcrowded /usr/bin, etc. etc. etc. They are not crowded. They contain binaries. You have them in your path. Everything is fine. > Please, think of everything accompanied this move before making a revolution. I think you are exaggerating. You have made one good point, the partitioning scheme. The rest is fear. Fear eats soul. The Hurd has a symlink . -> /usr Did the earth change its rotation direction? No. Did hell break loose? No. Did we have problems? Yes, exactly two: /bin/vi as provided by ae and cpio symlink from /sbin to /usr/sbin. What a big deal! We have grandfathered /usr/X11R6 long enough already. What actually is the benefit? For major upgrades of the Window System or concurrent versions we have our packaging system. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org finger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org master.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] for public PGP Key http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ PGP Key ID 36E7CD09
