This is basically the parable of "Grandma's Ham" https://www.executiveforum.com/cutting-off-the-ends-of-the-ham/ https://www.executiveforum.com/cutting-off-the

This is basically the parable of "Grandma's Ham" https://www.executiveforum.com/cutting-off-the-ends-of-the-ham/ https://www.executiveforum.com/cutting-off-the-ends-of-the-h... tl;dr nobody in 2 generations knows why they cut the ends off the ham before cooking it, until they talked to grandma, who said her pan was too small A Unix thing that's been posted to HN for a decade, that's almost literally the same story: Understanding the bin, sbin, usr/bin , usr/sbin split https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3519952 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3519952 tl;dr /usr/bin is separate from /bin because someone had a small hard disk once