Lennart Poettering
Lennart Poettering
So if /bin/, /usr/ and /usr/bin/ do exist for compat on nixos, why doesnt /bin/ symlink to /usr/bin/ for compat, too? Compat or not, there is no reason to have...
Distros merged /bin/ + /sbin/ into /usr/ precisely to minimize unnecessary compat issues since all binaries are now available under either path. If you really insist that the dirs should...
it means for example that we'll install binaries into subdirs of `$prefix` (i.e. `/usr/`) simply, instead of distinguishing `$rootprefix` (i.e. `/`) from it. i.e binaries would jut end up in...
Anyway, I am pretty sure this is something to fix in NixOS. And if they don't, and want to deviate from other distros and insist that /bin/ is a dir,...
> NixOS has very different approach towards /bin and /sbin - they don't really exist (except for `/bin/sh` and `/usr/bin/env`, because these are used heavily in shebangs around the world)....
> I don't think people will suddenly start writing `/bin/env bash` instead, "just because it's reachable now too". The main argument for using `/usr/bin/env` and is portability of the shebang...
What I really don't get though is why it's simportant for nix if you have to create the inodes anyway for /bin/sh and /usr/bin/env and thus also /usr/ and /usr/bin,...
> > What I really don't get though is why it's simportant for nix if you have to create the inodes anyway for /bin/sh and /usr/bin/env and thus also /usr/...
Please, can someone explain me seven more times how Nix works, I can never have enough of that. Thanks! Please, let's end this here, I understand there's more interest in...