On Thu, 5 Feb 2015, Bob Proulx wrote:

And that is also why I don't understand the move from /bin/* to
/usr/bin/* and the same for lib and others.  That makes the "usr" part
completely useless.  It would be better to move everything from
/usr/bin/* up to /bin/* instead and the same for lib and the others.

It lets you distinguish between OS utilites and application executables.

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