> 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/
You can read about why here
https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/TheCaseForTheUsrMerge/
<https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/TheCaseForTheUsrMerge/> and
also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/UsrMove
<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/UsrMove>
Barry
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