Ciaran McCreesh posted on Sat, 30 Jul 2011 11:46:00 +0100 as excerpted: > It's important to consider the timeline here. Separate /usr was > accidentally broken by a sudden increase in dependencies from base > system packages to desktopy things. It was only later that certain > people decided that "oh, separate /usr is a bad idea anyway", and they > did so because they couldn't figure out how to fix the mess they'd > caused. This is very much a case of carelessly letting the horse escape > and then trying to convince everyone that no-one needs a horse anyway...
++ -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman
