On 07/17/2012 07:07 PM, Olivier Crête wrote: > On Tue, 2012-07-17 at 18:41 -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: >> If somebody really is pushing for an all-out /usr move by all means >> speak up, but I think that basically what everybody is advocating is >> trying to follow upstream for individual packages. > > As I've been saying for a while, doing a full merge of /bin, /sbin, /lib > into /usr is probably unavoidable in the long term. We should be ready > for it, and even try to do it progressively. As currently, the split is > entirely arbitrary. > > Also be ready for a merge of /bin and /sbin.. I'm sure most people can't > even explain the difference between them. >
The difference is simple. You put stuff into /sbin when you do not want regular users to be able to select it via tab completion by default.
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