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This is a relatively recent thing, called the Usr Merge. https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/TheCaseForTheUsrMerge/ https://www.freedesktop.org/w

• hnlmorg 3y ago
  It’s a lot older than the edit date of that document. ArchLinux, for example, made the change somewhere in the region of 10 years ago. I can’t find an exact date but here’s a stack overflow discussion about the topic from 2016: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/266517/why-is-bin-a-symbolic-link-to-usr-bin https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/266517/why-is-bin-a...