On 17/11/18 at 15:56, Harald Arnesen wrote:
> Alessandro Selli [11/17/18 1:48 PM]:
>> Il 16/11/18 23:44, Harald Arnesen ha scritto:
>>> Irrwahn [11/16/18 9:10 PM]:
>>>
>>>> On System V Release 4 and later /bin has already been a symlink to
>>>> /usr/bin, and Solaris implemented the /usr merge about a decade ago.
>>>> Effectively, only some Unices and some Linux based distributions are
>>>> the odd ones out in that respect.
>>> And all the BSDs, macOS,...
>>
>>   You just reminded me one of the reasons because I do not run any of those.
> Your reason for not running BSD is that is has separate /bin and /usr/bin?


  Sorry, I quoted a wrong URL.  I was misled by the sentence: "I
invariably get the answer that all binaries, configurations etc. all
reside inside /usr/local/{bin,etc,share,sbin,man...}.", but rereading it
I see that only user software that is not involved in the boot process
is placed there.

  Yet, the points that guy lists against the BSD /usr/local and / merge
apply well even against the proposed merge: the merge does not make
software installation easier or less prone to confusion, because
regardless where the package is going to place it's files, whether under
/ or /usr or /usr/local, it keeps track of its own files in the
installed packages' DB.



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