Re:Debian considers merging /usr
by JdeBP on Tuesday November 22, 2016 @11:18AM
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It's a trifle hard to align the idea of what is supposedly "traditional" with the /usr merger that was done in Solaris 2 in the 1990s and AT&T UNIX System 5 Release 4 in the late 1980s. (-:
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Hence the " ;-). Indeed, the heritage isn't nearly as unbroken as its proponents think. I think it's perceived as so traditional because most of the free Unices (and, for a long time, Linux) did it, and some of them still do. FreeBSD started dynamically linking things in /bin much later, around 2004 IIRC, but I think OpenBSD and NetBSD still ship only static binaries there.
I think the fact that I can't even remember the last time I cared how things in /bin are linked is good proof of how important this "tradition" is, at least for me...