On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 09:57:15PM +0000, David Leverton wrote: > 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.
And I would argue that the maintenance cost of having separate /usr in a general sense is much higher than the benefit it provides. The problem with it is that it is next to impossible nowadays to define what should go in / vs what should go in /usr. William
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