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On Tue, 5 Jun 2018 20:51:40 -0600
Grant Taylor <gta...@tnetconsulting.net> wrote:

> On 06/05/2018 11:16 AM, Scott Lurndal wrote:
> > Somewhere around SVR4.   Originally it was for statically-linked
> > binaries that were required when /usr was a mount point and libs.so was
> > under /usr/lib.

	That accords with my understanding - it has changed since.

> I'm not tracking why /sbin was created to deal with things under /usr.
> 
> Was /bin a sym-link to /usr/bin before this?  I thought that was a 
> Solaris thing.

	I think it was, /bin and /usr/bin are still quite distinct in
FreeBSD and Centos 6 (OK still is a bit string for Centos 6).

> I get needing dependent libraries or static linking.  But I would have 
> thought that any libraries that things in /bin needed would be in /lib.

	Yep, and the stuff in /sbin is dynamically linked now. There's
a /rescue with a statically linked all-in-one (like busybox) with 144 links
for use when things are really hosed.

> I always viewed /(root) and /usr and /usr/local as three very distinct 
> hierarchies.  (That's part of why the /bin sym-link to /usr/bin bugged 
> me so much.)

	Agreed, one of the things I like about FreeBSD is that this
distinction is still maintained.

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