On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Nathanael D. Noblet wrote: > Andrew Haley wrote: > >> Well, sometimes the fact that something *is* standard is far more >> important >> than what the standard is. And /usr has been around for a very long time, >> and lots of software (an people, for that matter) know that it's there. >> Much of the GNU configured software by default installs in /usr/local. >> There has to be a very high bar for changing common practice. > > Yeah, I agree. I mean I haven't really seen any *solid* reason for removing > /usr. What does it improve? What situation does it fix? It doesn't save a > massive amount of space, it doesn't increase performance, it doesn't resolve > any long standing bug I can see. A change like that for so little gain will > find it hard to gain traction I think. > Not that I support or not support dropping /usr, but let's do this quick calculation: Every day I spend 3 seconds in average to type /usr. I am pretty sure that it is safe to assume that there are at least 100000 people like me in the world. This makes 300000 seconds to type /usr every day in the world. 300000 seconds is not easy to ignore, and can be used for more useful and productive things, like replying to this topic. :p Cheers, Orcan -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
