On Tue, 31 Jan 2012, Chris Knadle wrote:
Last month at the MHVLUG meeting I was asking a couple of people about whether
they knew about the current movement by Red Hat/Fedora to consolidate binary
directories as follows:
/bin -> /usr/bin
/sbin -> /usr/sbin
/lib -> /usr/lib
/lib64 -> /usr/lib64
I don't know if it still holds, but one reason to have /bin and /usr/bin
separate is that you can then boot to to single user with / mounted
and use stuff in /bin but not have to mount or use /usr/bin stuff.
(Which is why I know some vi, to use /bin/vi because emacs is in
/usr/bin :-)
What advantages are they suggesting come from merging /bin into /usr/bin?
-Eric
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