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From the Gobolinux homepage > /bin is a link to /System/Index/bin. And as a matter of fact, so is /usr/bin. And /usr/sbin So, they're doing exactly the same t

From the Gobolinux homepage > /bin is a link to /System/Index/bin. And as a matter of fact, so is /usr/bin. And /usr/sbin So, they're doing exactly the same thing as Debian is doing on the default merged configuration ? Issues seen on Debian are not the system using symlinks or not, but packages failing when exchanged between system that still had both /bin/ and /usr/bin as separate directories, as it was historically, and the new merged systems. Gobolinux being a from scratch built distro with no transition history, I am not sure how it can be seen as a better example here.

isr 5y ago
> So, they're doing exactly the same thing as Debian is doing on the default merged configuration ? No. * https://gobolinux.org/doc/articles/clueless.html https://gobolinux.org/doc/articles/clueless.html * https://gobolinux.org/at_a_glance.html https://gobolinux.org/at_a_glance.html I'll just copy & paste from earlier posts I made on a gobolinux-related thread some time ago (can't be bothered to rewrite the same arguments in different words) "Anyone who wants to try out gobolinux for real would at least do some basic reading first. Its that distinct a distro that you kind of have to, and no problems with that. Not everything innovative can be expected to be digested without a modicum of work up front. ... Sometimes the simplest alternative implementations require the most up-front understanding, because their simplicity challenges long-held preconceptions about how things should be. Thats Gobo in a nutshell. At its heart, its actually a very simple distro. Which uses simple tools, and the filesystem, to lay everything bare in front of the user. Funnily enough, Gobo is one of the few distros where you can refer to /bin/<any-linux-executable>, and as long as actually have that pkg installed (yes, under /Programs), then /bin/xyz WILL be found. Guaranteed. Thats by design." And: "The kernel module that hides the standard dirs under / is entirely optional, and is only there for aesthetic purposes. If you don't want it, don't load it. Absolutely nothing in gobolinux requires that kernel module to be running. Again, its just purely for aesthetic purposes."

isr 5y ago

> So, they're doing exactly the same thing as Debian is doing on the default merged configuration ? No. * https://gobolinux.org/doc/articles/clueless.html https://gobolinux.org/doc/articles/clueless.html * https://gobolinux.org/at_a_glance.html https://gobolinux.org/at_a_glance.html I'll just copy & paste from earlier posts I made on a gobolinux-related thread some time ago (can't be bothered to rewrite the same arguments in different words) "Anyone who wants to try out gobolinux for real would at least do some basic reading first. Its that distinct a distro that you kind of have to, and no problems with that. Not everything innovative can be expected to be digested without a modicum of work up front. ... Sometimes the simplest alternative implementations require the most up-front understanding, because their simplicity challenges long-held preconceptions about how things should be. Thats Gobo in a nutshell. At its heart, its actually a very simple distro. Which uses simple tools, and the filesystem, to lay everything bare in front of the user. Funnily enough, Gobo is one of the few distros where you can refer to /bin/<any-linux-executable>, and as long as actually have that pkg installed (yes, under /Programs), then /bin/xyz WILL be found. Guaranteed. Thats by design." And: "The kernel module that hides the standard dirs under / is entirely optional, and is only there for aesthetic purposes. If you don't want it, don't load it. Absolutely nothing in gobolinux requires that kernel module to be running. Again, its just purely for aesthetic purposes."