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[–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Whoa. What distro is it that puts everything in /bin, or at least, practically nothing in /usr/bin?

I use a Debian that actually symlinks /bin to /usr/bin so that they're one and the same (annoying some purists), but even on systems where they are (or were) used for separate purposes, I thought that each had a significant number of commands in them.

(To paraphrase man hier, /bin is for necessary tools and /usr/bin is for those that are nice to have.)

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    NixOS, all packages are in /nix/store/, where each package had its own folder (simplified because there's the hashing stuff but idk how to explain that)

    This allows you to have multiple versions of the same package, on the same system, for example.

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