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It is 100% as complicated and guided by historical principles that are, 50 years later, almost totally arbitrary.

I use both. I see no improvement whatsoever in the BSD approach.




I like that userland is kept separate from base as much as possible, but agree it could be even better. I do think the BSDs have more coherency than Linux on the whole. Would be nice if we could simplify things down even further, but I suspect it just becomes one giant bikeshedding exercise, which is probably why it's easier to just cling on to hier https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?hier


It’s a mess, but at least they have the decency to install 3rd party software under /usr/local




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