[PATCH] vi should be in /usr/bin and not in /bin

Paul Fox pgf at brightstareng.com
Tue Sep 4 20:14:57 UTC 2007


 > On Tuesday 04 September 2007 18:33, Natanael Copa wrote:
 > > While porting openbsd's sendbug I realized that busybox vi is in /bin
 > > and not in /usr/bin where I would expect an application like vi.

/usr/bin might have been correct at one time, when it was common
to have "ed" in /bin.  but it's currently the case that vi is
often the only editor on the system, and/or the only editor the
user will know how to use.  so linux puts it in /bin now.  (i
just checked recent fedora, debian, and ubuntu systems.)

paul
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 paul fox, pgf at brightstareng.com



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