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On Fri, Apr 08, 2016 at 09:20:19AM -0500, William Hubbs wrote |
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> Here is more info about the split and why it exists. It turns out it hs |
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> nothing to do with system admininistration or permissions. |
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> http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/2010-December/074114.html |
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> http://www.osnews.com/story/25556/Understanding_the_bin_sbin_usr_bin_usr_sbin_Split/ |
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> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3519952 |
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> In short, this is all a historical artifact with justifications thought |
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> up after the fact. |
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The historical reasons may or may not exist any longer. The question |
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is "what is the current situation?". The current situation is that |
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there are 3 classes of software... |
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1) system software that is required for bootup (mount, init, etcetera) |
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2) system software that is usually used by root for admin purposes |
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3) regular applications that users use |
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Question... do we really want "GIMP", "Firefox", etcetera, in the same |
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directory as "mount", "chroot", "login", "passwd", "ifconfig", etcetera? |
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I don't think so. I want separate "system progs" versus "user progs" |
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directories. There may be an argument for merging /bin and /sbin |
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directories (items 1 and 2 above), but user applications should be |
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separate. If we move /bin and /sbin into /usr/bin, I suggest moving all |
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user programs to /usr/local/binuser applications should be separate. If |
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we move /bin and /sbin into /usr/bin, I suggest moving all user programs |
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to /usr/local/bin. |
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications |
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