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Re: GNUstep directory layout
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Pascal Bourguignon |
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Re: GNUstep directory layout |
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Tue, 10 Sep 2002 11:42:57 +0200 (CEST) |
> From: "Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf" <Lars.Sonchocky-Helldorf@bbdo-interone.de>
> Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2002 16:32:22 +0200
>
> >> /Users, and Mac OS X has /Users. Normally, the users are kept out of
> >> any directory like /usr because /usr is, in many environments, mounted
> >
> >I feel *so* old - when I started using UNIX the home directories were
> >kept in /usr as it stood for "users" :-) I suspect that the other
>
> Uhmm, are you sure about this? IHMO usr stands for Unix System Resources,
> and this explains also why bin and lib are there.
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.
> >directories such as bin and lib ended up there by accident, and that
> >the tail ended up wagging the dog as people decided to move the home
> directories
> >elsewhere rather than find a sensible place to keep the stuff that doesnt
> >really belong under /usr
> >
> >but thats UNIX evolution for you :-)
> >
> >-bat. [as a completely off topic note - when *did* home directories move
> > out of /usr ? sometime around BSD 4.1ish ?]
>
> Lars
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