Am Samstag, 13. November 2021 schrieb Didier Kryn: > Le 13/11/2021 à 08:48, Didier Kryn a écrit : > > Le 13/11/2021 à 00:26, John Morris via Dng a écrit : > >> So yes, it is time to eliminate /bin, /sbin and /lib. > > > > Seems I've got it wrong. My understanding was that /usr/bin and > > /usr/sbin were merged into /bin and /sbin. You assume the opposite > > and probably so does Steve. > > > > Needs clarifications. > > > > -- Didier > > I checked and I was wrong, based on the option offered years ago > in Busybox and Buildroot (/usr/bin was a symlink to /bin and > /usr/sbin was an symlink to /sbin). I'm amazed; I find this amazingly > stupid. It just makes no sense because /usr is a nonsense - /usr > means "users' directory", which is now /home) - and I was hopping to > see it disapear. On the opposite, it becomes the actual root of the > OS.
Hi Didier, seems you got it (somewhat) wrong again ;-) I've been thinking of /usr as "Unix System Resources", but then I looked it up to be sure… See for yourself. Kind regards, Stefan Cite from Linux Filesystem Hierarchy¹: 1.17. /usr /usr usually contains by far the largest share of data on a system. Hence, this is one of the most important directories in the system as it contains all the user binaries, their documentation, libraries, header files, etc.... X and its supporting libraries can be found here. User programs like telnet, ftp, etc.... are also placed here. In the original Unix implementations, /usr was where the home directories of the users were placed (that is to say, /usr/someone was then the directory now known as /home/someone). In current Unices, /usr is where user-land programs and data (as opposed to 'system land' programs and data) are. The name hasn't changed, but it's meaning has narrowed and lengthened from "everything user related" to "user usable programs and data". As such, some people may now refer to this directory as meaning 'User System Resources' and not 'user' as was originally intended. [1] https://tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Filesystem-Hierarchy/html/usr.html _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
