Re: About the GNU's project's path (Please let them under /usr/gnu )

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From: Paul C. Janzen
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 1992 19:54

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In article <1992Mar17.164352.28093@odin.diku.dk> kris@diku.dk (Kristoffer H. Rose) writes:
>To me there are two very good reasons for using a special /usr/gnu
>directory as the default installation root for GNU software:
>
>1) VISIBILITY: I am afraid that currently many users use GNU software
>without being aware that it is GNU software!  Typically users will
[...]
>
>2) INTEGRITY: Once users are aware of GNU then it is simply more
>honest of GNU to allow users to choose between using GNU and not using

But this is certainly not an all-encompassing argument for /usr/gnu.
Consider Linux, for instance, for which almost every util is from GNU.
Lots of commercial software assumes, for instance, /usr/bin/tar. 
Surely you don't expect us to put everything in /usr/gnu ???? (BTW, 
our man pages are pretty much GNU's, though.)

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