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>>taubek+(OP)
Speaking of this, is there a good resource that elegantly but succinctly describes the intent of each of linux’s (Unix’s?) root directories?

I’ve spent like eight years with Ubuntu and realize it’s all symbol manipulation to me. I learn what is and goes where but all in practice and never because I understand the semantics.

>>Waterl+k7
Many distros, including Debian & Ubuntu, have merged /bin and /usr/bin, with symlinks for backwards compatibility: /bin -> /usr/bin (and similarly for /usr/lib etc).

https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/TheCaseFor...

>>drothl+A9
The Debian/Ubuntu merged-/usr is incomplete, various things are broken by the way this was achieved:

https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Dpkg/MergedUsr

>>pabs3+Ke
Note: This is the dpkg maintainer arguing an apparently fairly unpopular position of linking the specific files inside of /bin instead of /bin directly, in opposition to what appears to be the majority of linux distros.

He's even added a warning to dpkg and a "usrunmess" tool to switch a system to his preferred way of doing things.

It's not clear to me where the breakage lies and I've not seen any actual reports of it.

For more context see https://lwn.net/Articles/890219/