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Doesn't this seem backwards? Given that the usr prefix doesn't mean anything anymore, wouldn't it make more sense to just put everything in /bin and keep /usr/b
by gweinberg 7y ago
Doesn't this seem backwards? Given that the usr prefix doesn't mean anything anymore, wouldn't it make more sense to just put everything in /bin and keep /usr/bin as a symlink for backwards compatibility and eventually drop it?
- bonzini 7y agoPutting everything in a single directory allows you to mount it from a remote for system with a single mount point. /usr means "the part of the OS that is the same across all hosts".
- gweinberg 7y agoEverything is always in a single directory, it's called "/". I don't see why you think the files under /usr are particularly likely to be remote mounted.
- afiori 7y agoIf you remotely mount "/" then you ran out of namespace for non-remote files.
- sjmulder 7y agoIsn’t that supposed to be share/ and maybe a few others? bin/ and lib/ are architecture specific.