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@lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me @cks@mastodon.social This made sense in the case /usr was on a remote filesystem, so a sysadmin could install and update the OS once across many systems: /bin contained just enough to bring up /usr and recover in case it doesn't work

Of course on Linux you can put the whole of / on a network and it kinds of assume /usr and evertthing else is on the same partition as / so it's not useful anymore

A lot of distros symlinks /usr/bin to /bin and /usr/lib to /lib but there's a few stuff in /usr that doesn't have an equivalent in / so I guess this is where it breaks if the distro isn't aware of it because otherwise /usr would be a symlink since a while