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by shirro 3700 days ago
The /bin vs /usr/bin split makes perfect sense but I always thought /sbin was superflous to happy to see it being deprecated by many distros.

I expect with the increasing moves towards app stores and sandboxing on all platforms that the days of installing packages contents all over the filesystem are limited and things like xdg-app are probably going to take over with an app being mounted into the filesystem in a sandbox as it is run.

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Funny. I always thought the /bin vs /sbin split made more sense than / vs /usr. I very much prefer that my shell's autocomplete does not stop on binaries that I have no business running as a normal user, so I like that root-only tools are in /sbin.