Hi,

..rabbit hole plugging creepy stuff like usr-merge, should
start off easy with my oldest Devuan:
root@nb6:~# for p in sbin bin lib lib32 lib64 ;do dpkg -S \
$(which $(ls /$p/* )) |cut -d":" -f1 |sort |uniq |wc -l \
;echo "in /$p" ;done ;cat /etc/issue ;dpkg -l |wc -l
46
in /sbin
dpkg-query: no path found matching pattern /bin/mt
dpkg-query: no path found matching pattern /bin/nc
dpkg-query: no path found matching pattern /bin/netcat
39
in /bin
dpkg-query: no path found matching pattern /lib/cpp
dpkg-query: no path found matching pattern /usr/bin/w
4
in /lib
1
in /lib32
1
in /lib64
Devuan GNU/Linux ascii \n \l

4849
root@nb6:~# logout

..my _messy_ chimaera laptop:
/boot/images# for p in sbin bin lib lib32 lib64 ;do dpkg -S \
$(which $(ls /$p/* )) |cut -d":" -f1 |sort |uniq |wc -l \
;echo "in /$p" ;done ;cat /etc/issue ;dpkg -l |wc -l
dpkg-query: no path found matching pattern /sbin/ip6tables
dpkg-query: no path found matching pattern /sbin/ip6tables-restore
dpkg-query: no path found matching pattern /sbin/ip6tables-save
dpkg-query: no path found matching pattern /sbin/iptables
dpkg-query: no path found matching pattern /sbin/iptables-restore
dpkg-query: no path found matching pattern /sbin/iptables-save
dpkg-query: no path found matching pattern /sbin/plymouthd
70
in /sbin
dpkg-query: no path found matching pattern /bin/ksh
dpkg-query: no path found matching pattern /bin/live-config.orig
dpkg-query: no path found matching pattern /bin/mt
dpkg-query: no path found matching pattern /bin/nc
dpkg-query: no path found matching pattern /bin/netcat
dpkg-query: no path found matching pattern /bin/plymouth
dpkg-query: no path found matching pattern /bin/rksh
46
in /bin
dpkg-query: no path found matching pattern /lib/cpp
dpkg-query: no path found matching pattern /usr/bin/linux
7
in /lib
1
in /lib32
1
in /lib64
Devuan GNU/Linux 4 \n \l

7295
dvn:/boot/images#


..my surprisingly cleaner daedalus laptop:
root@d45:~# for p in sbin bin lib lib32 lib64 ;do dpkg -S \
$(which $(ls /$p/* )) |cut -d":" -f1 |sort |uniq |wc -l \
;echo "in /$p" ;done ;cat /etc/issue ;dpkg -l |wc -l
61
in /sbin
dpkg-query: no path found matching pattern /bin/csh
dpkg-query: no path found matching pattern /bin/mt
dpkg-query: no path found matching pattern /bin/nc
dpkg-query: no path found matching pattern /bin/netcat
49
in /bin
dpkg-query: no path found matching pattern /lib/cpp
7
in /lib
1
in /lib32
1
in /lib64
Devuan GNU/Linux daedalus \n \l

6122
root@d45:~#

..the newest kanotix32-towelfire-nightly-eeepc4G.iso I found
contracted systemd and usr-merge and has 112 linked packages
in /sbin, 295 linked it /bin and 24 linked in /lib, and 1263
total packages and didn't reach my old cranky D-Link.

--
..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen
...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry...
Scenarios always come in sets of three:
best case, worst case, and just in case.