On Sun, 2011-04-17 at 12:33 +0100, Andrew Benton wrote: > I think that the idea of doing away with /usr and just installing > everything into / is interesting as it would simplify the structure of > the directories. I also think that making the change would be like > poking yourself in the eye with a stick; painful and with no obvious > benefit. There would be a million things that would need patching > because they were looking for /usr/bin/perl or whatever. With no strong > reason to make the change it's difficult to summon the energy to do the > work.
Yes, that was my thought too. It *would* simplify the directory structures, and in most cases wouldn't be too hard to do, just passing --prefix=/ to everything. But really, I wouldn't be gaining anything for the effort... Simon.
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