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> /bin (and /usr/bin, /sbin, /usr/sbin ) is for system software (from your distro of choice) Don't most/popular distros symlink many of those together?
by theandrewbailey 3y ago
> /bin (and /usr/bin, /sbin, /usr/sbin ) is for system software (from your distro of choice)
Don't most/popular distros symlink many of those together?
- NekkoDroid 3y agoMost distros use a mostly hermetic-usr, where a majority of "distro stuff" is shipped in /usr/{bin,sbin,lib,lib<bitness>,share}. The folders in root mostly symlink to these directories (/usr/sbin might also symlink to /usr/bin).
- yjftsjthsd-h 3y agoYes, ex. https://wiki.debian.org/UsrMerge https://wiki.debian.org/UsrMerge
- HankB99 3y agoYes https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/TheCaseForTheUsrMerge/ https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/TheCaseFor... (Not sure if popularity matters.)
- froh 3y agoyes they do, because the original purpose and value of the separation has gone. "back in the days" before there was an initrd you needed a small disk. that was /bin and /sbin. into that disk some /etc/rc.d/ file would mount a separate /use partition (and /home and /opt), often from network. however with pivot_root and initrd we don't need that dance any more and do another one... likewise the distinction between sbin and bin is gone. that's why they today just symlink together.