On 29/09/2013 18:33, Dale wrote: >> that gnome is very hostile when it comes to KDE or choice is not news. >> > And their dependency on systemd is just the usual madness. But they are >> > not to blame for seperate /usr and the breakage it causes. > If not, then what was it? You seem to know what it was that started it > so why not share? >
He already said it. Someone added a hard disk to a PDP-9 (or was it an 11?) Literally. It all traces back to that. In those days there was no such thing as volume management or raid. If you added a (seriously expensive) disk the only feasible way to get it's storage in the system was to mount it as a separate volume. >From that one single action this entire mess of separate /usr arose as folks discovered more and more reasons to consider it good and keep it around -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
