• tromars@feddit.org
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    2 months ago

    Is there a reason to keep this structure other than „we’ve always been doing it like that“/backwards compatibility?

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      2 months ago

      The structure is changing, many distributions already are merging more and more of the duplicated subdirectories in /usr/ with the counterparts in / but it takes time to complete that and at the moment those subdirectories are often still there but as symlinks to be compatible with older software (and sysadmins).