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Re: RFC



On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 06:54:07AM -0800, Robert W. Current wrote:
> Linux was once fairly complete at 10M, now it's easily 500M in /usr, and
> nothing in /usr/local or /opt.  That's starting to get rediculus.  The OS
> is not 500M...  That's the issue.  So, why is there 500+M of crap in
> /usr/bin?

Why would it be better to have 500M in /opt? That's the sticking point.
You're saying that you don't want a standard that allows distributions
to put things in /usr, and I'm saying that there are distributions that
want to do things that way. Can you offer a reasoned argument to support
why your way is right and the other way is wrong? 

-- 
Mike Stone


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