16 Nov 2025 22:07:52 Martin Steigerwald <martin@???>:

> More than 700 hours on the /usr-move project. Way more it seems.
>
> Wow!
>
> It seems to be mostly done now. But I still wonder how could the end
> result ever have been worth spending such a gigantic amount of time
> on it?

I wouldn't waste any more time on it but as far as I'm concerned it just means Linux is likely losing the ability to do what OpenBSD does which is have static core system binaries that are the actual core system and not an alternative and I don't think immutable distros are any kind of good replacement for that. Of course I doubt slackware will ever do a usr merge.

https://man.openbsd.org/hier

/sbin
System programs and administration utilities fundamental to both single and multi-user environments. Most of these programs are statically compiled and therefore do not depend on any system libraries to run.

/bin
User utilities fundamental to both single and multi-user environments. These programs are statically compiled and therefore do not depend on any system libraries to run.