On 04/03/13 12:46, Francois Tigeot wrote:
There's no need for them in an unified / + /usr world.
IMHO 'unified / + /usr' world is the result of Linux systems not having a 'real' build system and doing things willy-nilly than anything else, and is not a good model to base anything on. I don't have any proof to back this up - other than the existance of 'traditional' unices[1] (e.g. unices where those with full sources can 'build the system') which don't do this (e.g. all BSD's, Solaris, probably HPUX & AIX still, etc) .. [1] Recall UNIX: originally, a 9 track tape containing source and binaries for a self hosting operating system. This was always the case until commercial unices started keeping the source code to themselves, and later (mis-)codified in posix imho by falsely defining 'unix' as a simple 'trademark' to a 'program specification'.
