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From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
To: "Jacques A. Vidrine" <n@nectar.com>,
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On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 02:18:39PM -0600, Jacques A. Vidrine wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 08:12:33PM +0200, Maxim Sobolev wrote:
> > > Well, ld.so could still break, and anyway you'd lose the ability to
> > 
> > Probability of ld.so breakage is quite low, much lower than any of the
> > base libs, 
> 
> I guess I was thinking in terms of inaccessible /usr, which is the
> most common thing I've run into.

Many, many people today have a huge / with /usr on it.  Many of us don't
believe in the traditional partitioning and follow SGI's, HP's, and Sun's
lead in this.

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-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
          GNU is Not Unix / Linux Is Not UniX

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