Question about the installation directory of programs

[Joshua Judson Rosen]

On 2013-11-07 01:56, ChenQi wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Forgive me if this is a dummy question.
> I see the installation directories of programs are controlled by the
> applets.src.h file.
> Some of them are installed into /usr while some of them are not.
> Is there a criteria to determine whether a program goes into /usr or not.
> For example, why is `rpm' installed into /bin while `tail' is installed into
> /usr/bin?

I believe rpm is installed into /bin because RedHat and related systems like SuSE,
whose practices are being emulated by Busybox, install rpm into /bin.

In other words, Busybox is following existing conventions.

Are you asking because you have an implementation of a new applet
that you'd like to integrate into busybox?

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