/bin and /usr/bin make less sense these days since the root partition is usually big enough to boot and to hold all the programs the system needs. But it’s impo

/bin and /usr/bin make less sense these days since the root partition is usually big enough to boot and to hold all the programs the system needs. But it’s important to have somewhere outside the package-manager’s control for manually installed binaries. Most installers default to directories like /opt/foo/bin and I tend to put user-built programs into /usr/local/bin.