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1. Hisham (hishamhm@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 29-May-2017 17:50:45 CEST Hisham

   It's amazing how early design mistakes of successful software end up getting after-the-fact justifications that are ardently defended by its fans.

   Example: /usr was the disk for users data in the original Unix (old docs use /usr/ken in examples after K. Thompson). When the root disk got full they started storing programs there and /usr/bin was born.

   People now give backronyms for "USR" and justify the /usr though the rigid "partitions" model is flawed (and was even abandoned in Plan 9).

   • Christine Lemmer-Webber repeated this.
   • Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@octodon.social)'s status on Monday, 29-May-2017 18:30:53 CEST Christine Lemmer-Webber

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     @hisham_hm The main reason it's hard to get Guix packaged in Debian is that it includes /gnu/ which violates the FHS. I understand wanting to not have too many variations on the toplevel as an argument, but *some* users treat the FHS as if it's a sacred document...