The bin
and sbin
merge in Fedora is interesting. I didn’t even know that the duplicate root level directories had already been merged into their /usr
equivalents.
The short version is all commands and static software files go under /usr
now. All commands other than games go in /usr/bin
. The root level symlinks may stick around forever, but we should all start using /usr
exclusively.
The bin
and sbin
merge is starting with Fedora, but other distros will probably follow like they did with the /usr
merge.
The `bin` and `sbin` merge in Fedora is interesting. I didn’t even know that the duplicate root level directories had already been merged into their `/usr` equivalents.
The short version is all commands and static software files go under `/usr` now. All commands other than games go in `/usr/bin`. The root level symlinks may stick around forever, but we should all start using `/usr` exclusively.
The `bin` and `sbin` merge is starting with Fedora, but other distros will probably follow like they did with the `/usr` merge.
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