The Gentoo news post is not about having /bin and /usr/bin as separate directories, which continues to work well to this day (I should know, since that’s the setup I have). That configuration is still supported.
The cited post is about having /bin and /usr on separate partitions without using an iniramfs, which is no longer guaranteed to work and had already been awfully iffy for a while before January. Basically, Gentoo is no longer jumping through hoops to make sure that certain files land outside /usr, because it was an awful lot of work to support a very rare configuration.
I’m curious why the separation between these still exists, because a bunch of distributions symlink all of these to
/usr/bineither wayThink about booting over network. Or having /usr on another drive. Including even network drive. Think about
dumb terminals(wrong cetury) thin clients. For example they can use small disk to quickly boot wihout downloading kernel and initramfs and use NFS for /usr and /home.These days, AFAIK network boot is done thru initramfs. It loads rootfs in most cases I’ve seen tho.
True, network boot is not best example. Shared /usr is much better one. For example if you are school that wants to buy 100 thin clients for very cheap.
Alpine still keeps /bin and /usr/bin separated.
And iirc the next fedora release will finally unify everything under /usr/bin.
And iirc the next fedora release will finally unify everything under /usr/bin.
On my current Fedora 40 install
/binis already a symlink to/usr/binYeah I meant this: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Unify_bin_and_sbin
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