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lord.garbage

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Registered: 2014-04-28

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[SOLVED] Has Archlinux indeed moved binaries to /usr?

I saw the new Archlinux arch-announce Digest, Vol 32, Issue 1 today and read through some older topics. There was an announcement on 2013-06-03 by Allan McRae stating that binaries move to /usr/bin. Has this really happened? Or is this done gradually and that is why /bin, /sbin and /lib are still there?

Last edited by lord.garbage (2014-08-21 12:33:46)

dice

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Registered: 2014-02-10

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Re: [SOLVED] Has Archlinux indeed moved binaries to /usr?

At least at my system this is true so I guess it has happened.
/bin, /sbin and /lib are symlinks to the coresponding folders under /usr

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lord.garbage

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Re: [SOLVED] Has Archlinux indeed moved binaries to /usr?

Ah, now I understand. The folders are symlinked... Cheers dice!

karol

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Re: [SOLVED] Has Archlinux indeed moved binaries to /usr?

https://www.archlinux.org/news/binaries … ervention/ has a link to https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail … 22625.html which says

* By symlinking the old directories to /usr/{bin,lib} we keep
backwards compatibility, and also improve our compatibility with
distros that chose to put their binaries in different locations.

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