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To: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami)
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Subject: Re: /compat -> /usr/local/compat 
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Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1997 18:43:23 -0800
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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>  * Just don't forget that sysinstall has already been creating and
>  * linking it in as /usr/compat since 2.2.2 at least. :-)
> 
> /usr/compat?  Eek.  That may fill up some people's /usr's pretty quick
> (it's over 15MB now, and with new versions coming out every couple of
> months...).

I know, but /usr was the only partition I could count on, and besides,
I don't see that putting it in /usr/local will necessarily help most
people out of the same situation since very very few think to put it
on its own partition anyway. :-)

					Jordan