Samueru

Samueru , vor 2 Monaten

Isnt fedora like the last distro that doesnt symlink /bin and /sbin to /usr/bin?

Samueru , vor einem Monat

In the old days distros used to separate the location of binaries in several places like /bin /sbin /usr/bin and /usr/sbin there was this idea that system binaries would go in /sbin while the rest in /bin and the similar dirs in /usr were so that you could mount a separate drive to store more binaries. This is from a time where storage was an issue.

These days distros usually just symlink all those locations to /usr/bin with the exception of fedora, which still keeps some split.

However it seems they will finally merge the remaining dirs in fedora 41: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Unify_bin_and_sbin

Samueru , vor 2 Monaten

(once Flatpak get that too, there is no valid reason for snaps to exist).

They said they will not fix it due to "security concerns"