Comment by benchloftbrunch

3 days ago

Question: why did they decide to make /usr/bin the "primary" and /bin the symlink? Methinks it should have been the other way around as was the original Unix design before the split.

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benchloftbrunch

argulane 3 days ago

Using /usr/bin instead of /bin comes down to that is much easier to mount one /usr instead of doing bunch of bind mounts for /bin /sbin /lib /lib32 /lib64,

Also some more background info https://systemd.io/THE_CASE_FOR_THE_USR_MERGE/

paulddraper 3 days ago

There is some logical grouping. Everything under /usr is "executables+libraries+docs, mostly immutable" so there is some logical grouping.

Whereas /etc is for configuration and /var is for mutable data.