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Interestingly Arch address multiple bin directories mess by symlinking /bin, /sbin, and /usr/sbin to /usr/bin. Stali, an experimental distro (originally a suckl
by forgotpwd16 6y ago
Interestingly Arch address multiple bin directories mess by symlinking /bin, /sbin, and /usr/sbin to /usr/bin. Stali, an experimental distro (originally a suckless.org project), goes that a bit further by symlinking /sbin to /bin and /usr to /.
- pkaye 6y agoIts the same in Ubuntu and Centos with symlinks of the bin directories.
- stonesweep 6y agoBig picture, this is known as "the usr merge" which has been happening for probably a decade, each distro is approaching it at their own speed as they're not all exactly identical in their FHS layout (some distros add a bit of this and that on top). You can read about it at a meta level over here, each distro has it's own wiki/working page if you Google around: https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/TheCaseForTheUsrMerge/ https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/TheCaseFor...