Re: GNUstep directory layout

[Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf]

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