Fedora 40 Plans To Unify /usr/bin & /usr/sbin

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Fedora 40 Plans To Unify /usr/bin & /usr/sbin

One of the latest change proposals filed for Fedora 40 is to unify their /usr/bin and /usr/sbin locations...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-40-Unify-usr-bin-sbin

[Vorpal]

Huh, they hadn't done this already? It has been unified on Arch for at least a few years. Oh well, better late than never I guess.

[avis]

Huh, they hadn't done this already? It has been unified on Arch for at least a few years. Oh well, better late than never I guess.

Already was /bin /sbin -> /usr/bin /usr/sbin.

I guess Debian will have another 6 year war because of this change They've not even completed the usr merge yet, AFAIK.

[poncho524]

So the FHS doesn't matter?

[docontra]

I guess Debian will have another 6 year war because of this change They've not even completed the usr merge yet, AFAIK.

"It gets better", Debian is among the exceedingly few GNU/Linux distros that do not add {/usr{/local,},}/sbin to PATH for non-root users by default . Cue many speculative genealogy sessions by me on the spot whenever I wanted some network info on Debian boxen using /sbin/ifconfig , /sbin/route , and /sbin/arp (from before I switched to mostly using ip, which is thankfully on /bin )

(As for /usr migration, Debian 13 -- Trixie -- will be fully migrated and IIRC Debian 12 -- bullseye -- already installs with merged /usr by default; the issue is packaging -- packages that still install to /{lib,{,s}bin} -- and a somewhat esoteric bug/corner case in dpkg)

PD: I have no particular horse in this race, but the rationale posted on the Fedora proposed change neatly counters all my arguments for keeping the split .

[rmfx]

They put sbin into usr/bin too ?
I don’t get it.

If they want to unify folders media could be merged with mnt then.

[Myownfriend]

Excellent. There's been a few times where I've followed a guide and it didn't work because I didn't realize it needed to use sbin instead of bin.

[Vistaus]

Already was /bin /sbin -> /usr/bin /usr/sbin.

I guess Debian will have another 6 year war because of this change They've not even completed the usr merge yet, AFAIK.

Not only Debian: openSUSE Tumbleweed also separates the two still.

[pkunk]

... for at least a few years.

Basically 12.

[cj.wijtmans]

Why not unify /dev /sys etc. And /home /mnt /media /root into /. Heck why not unify everything and every filename is a hash in /.

more to come destroying linux madness.