23 Dec
2016
23 Dec
'16
11:27 a.m.
Diomidis Spinellis <dds(a)aueb.gr> wrote:
On 23/12/2016 04:28, Doug McIlroy wrote:
So was "/usr/bin" initially only for user-contributed binaries, or was
it from its inception a place for binaries that were not essential for
system boot and could not fit in the root partition?
Does
anyone remember whether at the time these were installed in the
system-wide /bin directory,
Those that I remember were in /usr/bin. From the talk from Stephen Bourne around 1990 at the
Sun User Group meeting,
/usr/bin started with user contributed binaries only.
Later the directory was aquired by the system after many of the user
contributed programs have been integrated into UNIX.
At that time people started to use /usr/local and in order to interrupt this
chain of bad naming, /opt/<vendor>/bin has been introduced.
Jörg
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