On 2014-06-07 01:54, Linda Walsh wrote:
Just as when I asked -- why move things to /usr/bin, when you could have put things in /bin and had the same effect (all in one place) but no risk of having /usr not mounted?
Because then /usr would be empty. :-P Choose: a full root, or a full usr. Things were moved out of /bin because they will not work, anyway, unless you have available, before mounting /usr, all the shared libraries that are stored below /usr. For a "/bin" to properly work, either you have everything statically linked, or provide all those libraries in /lib instead of /usr/lib. That's the reason that things have been moved to usr. And libraries are shared by policy, lets say. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)