The fact that there are several directories with binaries is not a problem by itself. The problem is that many applications use hardcoded paths instead of searc

The fact that there are several directories with binaries is not a problem by itself. The problem is that many applications use hardcoded paths instead of searching for these binaries using PATH. It means that if someone decides to get away from this legacy structure and move OS into something like /system/debian-11.1.2/ all those programs would break. Examples: [1], [2]. I assume that developers have hardcoded those paths because /sbin is often not included into PATH. [1] https://github.com/blueman-project/blueman/blob/fcef83a01c80bec3bbee731a162ce18a0f4c097a/blueman/main/NetConf.py#L365 https://github.com/blueman-project/blueman/blob/fcef83a01c80... [2] https://github.com/blueman-project/blueman/blob/fcef83a01c80bec3bbee731a162ce18a0f4c097a/blueman/main/PPPConnection.py#L82 https://github.com/blueman-project/blueman/blob/fcef83a01c80...