On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 8:35 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés <can...@gmail.com> wrote: > But it must be clear that all the rationale behind > said division was invented after the fact,
I would say that the rationale was not “invented”, but rather adapted to an evolving system. > and (as Rob Landley said in > his email [2]) maintained "for decades by bureaucrats who never > question _why_ they're doing things". I am surprised that anyone took that rant seriously. It is just a rant, ignoring evolution of systems (where initially arbitrary configuration changes and gets meaning with time), and treating developers who have to deal with backwards compatibility issues and established usage conventions as thick bureaucrats. -- Maxim Kammerer Liberté Linux: http://dee.su/liberte
