Jim Gifford wrote:
> The only reason I see less being in bin is for troubleshooting purposes
> for viewing files.
I agree with this. The purpose of minimizing /bin is somewhat
historical. When disks were smaller and more expensive, an admin would
want to minimize what is on /bin and /sbin and nfs mount /usr for the
bulk of the programs. Looking at a current build, my /bin is 3.1 MB and
/sbin is 5.0 MB. On the other hand, my /usr/bin is 168 MB and /usr/sbin
is 7.4 MB. (I have other programs in /opt.)
I suspect that today most users have all the directories specified above
in the root partition. In this case, it really doesn't make any
difference. For those that don't, having less in /bin costs about 148KB
and provides some useful functionality for troubleshooting.
Its really up to the user to decide for himself if a trivial amount of
disk space is worth a slight convenience.
The bottom line is that it really doesn't make any difference. That
said, I lean toward convenience and would leave less{,key,echo} in /bin.
-- Bruce
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