Bug 71427

Summary:	Symlinks in /usr/bin
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Kaiting Chen <Phoenixfire159>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Kaiting Chen 2004-11-16 12:19:18 UTC

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:

Comment 1 solar (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-11-19 05:18:35 UTC

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