Understanding the bin, sbin, usr/bin , usr/sbin split

[Stephen Gordon]

On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 10:16 AM, Lennart Sorensen
<lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 07, 2012 at 12:21:35AM -0500, William Park wrote:
>> On Mon, Feb 06, 2012 at 09:43:09PM -0500, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
>> > I've heard that OS/X does something like: all a package does is add a
>> > directory, and populates it with all the "stuff", including any
>> > executables.  The package manager does not have to be intricate,
>> > policing shared directories.  Then the binary gets made accessible
>> > somehow.  Symlink?  Union mount?
>>
>> This would be a step in the right direction.  Each package should be
>> given a directory, and it can do whatever under it.  This would simplify
>> package management a LOT.  There is no need to share anything.  If you
>> want something, you know exactly where it is.
>
> Because obviously packages never include libraries that one would want
> to share and the linker need to know where is.
>
> In other words: What an awful idea.

Indeed, maybe we could call it C:\Program Files.
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