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by hnlmorg 1494 days ago
This is wrong (and dangerously so too).

On FreeBSD 3rd party packages go into /usr/local and not /usr

You absolutely will get base packages in /usr/bin (eg `env`) so nuking /usr/bin will break your FreeBSD install.

There's a good write up here: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/332764/role-of-the-...