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

[William Park]

>>  If you want something from GNU C library, you know it will be under

>>  /usr/glibc.  If you want something from Firefox, then you know it
>>  will be under /usr/firefox.  This pissing contest about package
>>  management is just waste of time and resources.
> 
> But it means I have to tell the link where EVERYTHING is.  What a mess.
> Why do I care what the packagename is that provided libpthread.  Could
> be glibc, eglibc, uclibc, who knows.

Hmm... don't you have to know where the library is coming from?
I mean, libc.so from GNU C and libc.so from busybox are awefully
different.
-- 
William

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