On Mon, Feb 22, 2021, 7:50 PM Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 07:38:21PM -0500, Steve Nickolas wrote:
> > On Tue, 23 Feb 2021, Wesley Parish wrote:
> >
> > > I've just checked Slackware 14.* and it's still got a few binaries in
> > > /bin, unlike the RedHat* group which has indeed sent them all to
> > > /usr/bin. I don't know about the Debian* group, or if the Mandrake*
> > > group have gone with the RedHat* or not. Let alone all the other
> > > distros.
> >
> > Debian links /bin to /usr/bin.
>
> New installs of Debian will use a /usr merged configuration.  However,
> for pre-existing installations, we are not yet forcing, or even
> strongly recommending, system administrators to install the usrmerge
> package which will transition an legacy directory hierarchy to be /usr
> merged.  So at the moment, Debian packages need to support both merged
> and non-merged configurations, which is not ideal
>

I anticipate needing a /usr/bin/bash soon on my FreeBSD system for the same
reason I have a /bin/bash pointing at /usr/local/bin/bash. Progress :)

Warner

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