And that reasoning shows commendable foresight, but really, how often do you find yourself able to mount /bin and not /usr/bin? This situation shows up in some old-timers' horror tales, but I'd like to hear whether any NLUGger has experienced it in recent memory...
Not quite old-timer, but getting there in a dainty floral handbasket: Hi, y'all!
Systems used to be smaller, and subject to different problems than we have today. Also, there are quite a number of different UNIX-like environments, and I suppose there are more than 70 different Debian-based distros, with each packager doing what they think is best.
If one is going to complain rpm vs. deb, why isn't one doing the proper thing, using vi, and compiling everything from scratch? Or, one can bow down to the awesome power of SMIT, pkgadd, /ports/, or any number of other long-forgotten and ill-conceived package distribution methods. I think you can install apt on RedHat systems.
I learned to use vi on SunOS because it was on the system, and even in a mostly damaged state (from libraries broken from disk failure), vi will generally work. Emacs is a much larger animal. Now it is all muscle-memory for vi commands.
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