ls and grep are in /bin on my system. wc, coming from coreutils is in /usr/bin. But that's really only a small part of /usr/bin. $ dpkg -L coreutils | grep -c

ls and grep are in /bin on my system. wc, coming from coreutils is in /usr/bin. But that's really only a small part of /usr/bin. $ dpkg -L coreutils | grep -c /usr/bin 76 Are you suggesting that all of e.g. GNOME should be a single program?