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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
Arch and Gentoo does the same, though I don't think they break their respective package managers

>>kajiry+Ct
Gentoo still uses the split setup by default. Unifying the directories is currently a work in progress and will eventually be the default from what I understand.

It's possible that Gentoo will still support the split setup even after the default is changed since it supports many different inits and libcs but I am not sure.