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submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I was wondering what happened to the proposal from a month ago....

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Explanation please

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

In the old days distros used to separate the location of binaries in several places like /bin /sbin /usr/bin and /usr/sbin there was this idea that system binaries would go in /sbin while the rest in /bin and the similar dirs in /usr were so that you could mount a separate drive to store more binaries. This is from a time where storage was an issue.

These days distros usually just symlink all those locations to /usr/bin with the exception of fedora, which still keeps some split.

However it seems they will finally merge the remaining dirs in fedora 41: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Unify_bin_and_sbin

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Interesting! This sounds actually useful for transparency, but fine?