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/usr/bin disappeared. Do we really follow FSSTND?



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A friend of mine has a machine on the net whose /usr/bin directory has
disappeared. The machine has a Debian mirror, so any package is
available to be installed again, however:

`dpkg' was in /usr/bin, so currently there is no package manager.

`ftp' was also in /usr/bin, so if the machine would not have a Debian
mirror, no package could be downloaded (they may be "uploaded", however).

`ar' was in /usr/bin so if you want to uncompress a .deb package by hand,
you can't.

Question: Would not `dpkg', `ar' and `ftp' have to be in /bin
instead of /usr/bin?

[ FSSTND says /usr/bin are just "Binaries that are not needed in
single-user mode", ha, ha... ]

Thanks.

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