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Yes, and undoing this means it's no longer UNIX as it will no longer run on that PDP-11! (Unless you can afford a bigger disk I guess.)

• NekkoDroid 2y ago
  If "being UNIX" hinges on the fucking filesystem structure I honestly am fine with it "not being UNIX"
  • pjmlp 2y ago
    It does, however it is actually less strict than I had in mind, https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/ https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/
  • eru 2y ago
    I suspect you missed the sarcasm in Athas' comment?
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• jraph 2y ago
  A lot of thoughts [1] have been put into the usr merge, and compatibility with unix is one of them, and one other unix that has done this merge is Solaris, so Linux distros doing the merge are not even that special. (note: it's not about merging /bin and /sbin) [1] https://systemd.io/THE_CASE_FOR_THE_USR_MERGE/ https://systemd.io/THE_CASE_FOR_THE_USR_MERGE/