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by jhanschoo 2482 days ago
A goal of Fedora was to have a "snapshottable" /usr that includes as much as possible (all?) of the generic OS files. That is, multiple machines running the same OS can have a shared /usr, and everything machine-specific in the other dirs.

See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/UsrMove#Why_don.E2.8...