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Re: GNUstep directory layout
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Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf |
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Re: GNUstep directory layout |
Date: |
Tue, 10 Sep 2002 15:20:06 +0200 |
IMHO,
>/bin /dev /etc /lib /tmp where installed and managed by the original
>Unix distributions.
>
>/usr was "reserved" to the user. That is, an upgrade or a new
>installation of Unix would not erase what was in /usr.
>
>Then some nice programmers at BSD and elsewhere developped nice tools
>and installed them in: /usr/bin, /usr/lib, ... Progressively, these
>nice tools being so nice, they were integrated to some distributions
>of Unix (BSD for example), and thus /usr became itself a "system"
>directory. But this was not the initial intent, AFAIK.
>
>
>That said, your "Unix System Resources" is worth remembering, nowaday.
thanks for the history lesson - I am not that long into UNIX to know this.
Btw. it is interesting to see how things evolved, how a quick hack became
a quasi standard.
greetings, Lars
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