[arch-dev-public] [RFC] Cleaning up /sbin, /bin and /lib

[Tom Gundersen]

Hi guys,

I just noticed that some binaries moved from /usr/bin to /bin, and
thought I'd take this opportunity to gauge people's opinion about the
situation.

If I understand correctly /bin, /sbin and /lib are meant for files
that might be needed by /etc/rc.sysinit during early boot, before /usr
has been mounted. Everything else should go in the respective
counterparts in /usr.

At the moment we have a lot of binaries in /bin and /sbin that really
do not need to be there, and I suggest that we slowly start tidying
this up by moving them to /usr whenever we have the opportunity. We
can add compatibility symlinks, where needed, so nothing should break.

The pacakges with binaries outside of /usr are:

community/busybox
community/fgetty
community/systemd
community/tcsh
extra/cpio
extra/fuse
extra/grub2-common
extra/mt-st
extra/ntfs-3g
extra/pdksh
extra/zsh
core/bash
core/bzip2
core/coreutils
core/dash
core/ed
core/filesystem
core/gawk
core/grep
core/grub
core/gzip
core/inetutils
core/iputils
core/kbd
core/keyutils
core/less
core/mkinitcpio
core/module-init-tools
core/ncurses
core/net-tools
core/procps
core/sed
core/shadow
core/sysvinit
core/tar
core/util-linux