I know that this is not really a bug. Today, I was looking through my Debian /bin and /usr/bin directories, and I noticed that they were vastly different from Gentoo's. I was just curious as to under what juridiction determines where files are placed, in /bin or /usr/bin. Some files that I was unsure of are gawk, setserial, igawk, etc. Another thing is, why are there symlinks between the files in /usr/bin and /bin For instance, ls exists in /bin, but there is a symlink to it in /usr/bin. It would seem that files placed in just one location would be fine. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
This question is suited for a mailing list. Anyway symlinks exist for some program is both /usr/bin/ /bin/ due to some scripts having hard coded paths to either. Where files are placed are based on FHS and the need for the /lib /bin dirs to not be filled with more than really is needed for a boot
