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Re: udev and /usr



On 2009-09-04 07:46, Marco d'Itri wrote:
On Sep 04, Gabor Gombas <gombasg@sztaki.hu> wrote:

Incompetent, no. Careless, yes. Just think about the udev-related
breakages in the past. And speaking about design, udev was originally
praised because it can do everything in user space. Now, the authors of
udev are proposing devtmpfs, because as it turned out, it's not _so_
rosy doing everything in userspace.

What we have is the result of gradual evolution. People who can make accurate
predictions 10 years into the future typically don't develop software.
                -- Wietse Venema on some aspects of postfix

Whatever the cause, it breaks the FHS.

I'd not call it incompetent or careless. Rather... narrow sighted and un-Unixy. Too PC-ish. Someone should have remembered that there are times when separate /usr and /var is A Good Thing.

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