Re: [MiNT] MiNTLib 0.52.3b

[Martin-Eric Racine <q-funk@pp.fishpool.com>]

> |> > |> That /bin and /usr/bin are different folders.
> |> > 
> |> > In which way???  That is just plain broken.
> |> 
> |> It is not.  In fact, systems that mindlessly stuff everything in 
> |> /usr are the ones that broke older traditions, without any good
> |> reason.
> 
> What has this to do with /bin vs /usr/bin?  If /bin == /usr/bin then you
> can find everything in /bin what is in /usr/bin and vice versa.  How can
> this break anything?

/bin is meant for the utmost basic necesary binaries.  It can be
on a really tiny partiton and contains just enough to boot and
maintain a system (in conjunction with /sbin).

What symlinking breaks is, people mindlessly define /usr/bin or
/bin for every command they call in a script or Makefile and if
others on systems where the binaries are correctly distributed
between /bin and /sbin, then all hell breaks loose.  When one
has to port some source-code, things are even worse.

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