John Hardin wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > John Hardin wrote: > > > 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. > > > > How? Please say more? That one sentence is just too vague and > > ambiguous to know what you mean here. Sorry. > > OS utilities (e.g. sh, bash) go under /bin, applications (e.g. Firefox, > Inkscape) go under /usr/bin. > > That way you can mount /bin read-only unless you're performing an OS > upgrade.
First let me say I am in complete agreement with you that organizing executables in that way was nice. But... The distributions are moving all of /bin/* into /usr/bin/ and Fedora has already done it. This separation you have just mentioned is disappearing for most of us and has already disappeared for many of us. My comment above was concerning an already post-moved world where everything is already moved into one directory such as on Fedora, HP-UX, some others. Bob
