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jebez

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From: Alpes mountains, France

Registered: 2025-01-15

Posts: 204

Why are there symlinks in the / directory?

bin, lib, lib64 & sbin.

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Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 13,583

Re: Why are there symlinks in the / directory?

For compatibility.

loqs

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Registered: 2014-03-06

Posts: 18,796

Re: Why are there symlinks in the / directory?

For compatibility with software that treats /bin /usr/bin and /sbin as three separate locations while Arch only supports a /usr/bin similarly for /lib and on x86_64 Arch lib64 is the default /usr/lib as well.

Lone_Wolf

Administrator

From: Netherlands, Europe

Registered: 2005-10-04

Posts: 14,796

Re: Why are there symlinks in the / directory?

https://archlinux.org/news/binaries-mov … ervention/ and https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/a … 22625.html give background info about this.

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