There are a lot of questions that mention /usr/bin
. I think it would be really advantageous to Ask Ubuntu to have a code-processor such that nothing modified or copied to /usr/bin
.
Installing stuff to /usr/bin
is always a bad idea, and unfortunately it will always "work" right after.
In fact, ideally we would not be targeting /usr/
outside of /usr/local
at all. The default utilities do it, and every time I see a novice try to be helpful when mentioning these system directories I end up gritting my teeth.
/usr/bin
?/usr/bin
that aren't in the scope of installing something there. I think a better idea would be to come up with a nice comment with informative links, telling people that only OS packages should go to/usr/bin, /usr/lib, ...
and that site installs should be put in/usr/local
or other locations. I understand what he's getting at here, a lot of people don't realize where non-OS packages should actually go.