23 Dec
2016
23 Dec
'16
10:37 a.m.
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?
The second reason is the one that is popularly documented e.g.:
http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/2010-December/074114.html
http://askubuntu.com/questions/130186/what-is-the-rationale-for-the-usr-dir…
Does anyone
remember whether at the time these were installed in the
system-wide /bin directory,
Those that I remember were in /usr/bin.