On 24Jul2019 21:36, Barry Scott <ba...@barrys-emacs.org> wrote:
On 23 Jul 2019, at 00:13, Cameron Simpson <c...@cskk.id.au> wrote:
Why _any_ modern system has anything other than /bin in the base
install escapes me. In the distant past /sbin and a distinct /usr
with its own bin had their values, but these days? Bah!
On fedora its all in /usr these days with symlinks to the old
locations.
$ ls -l / | grep usr
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Feb 11 13:47 bin -> usr/bin/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Feb 11 13:47 lib -> usr/lib/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Feb 11 13:47 lib64 -> usr/lib64/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Feb 11 13:47 sbin -> usr/sbin/
drwxr-xr-x. 13 root root 4096 May 5 17:22 usr/
That is some progress, hooray. Then there's just sbin -> bin to go. They
could merge lib and lib64 too if they embedded an architecture signature
in library filenames.
You can read about why here
https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/TheCaseForTheUsrMerge/
and also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/UsrMove
Thanks for these references.
Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <c...@cskk.id.au>
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