William Hubbs wrote:
The reason the split happened is pretty straight forward, and every other "justification" for continuing it was come up with after the fact.
I keep hearing this, but I really don't see how it's relevant. I'm sure you'll find lots of things in your life that you use for some purpose other than what they were originally invented for¹, and there's no reason why /usr should be any different. All that matters is whether or not the newer reasons for having separate /usr actually provide a benefit.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coca-Cola#19th_century_historical_origins
