> My Manjaro install has a /bin and it is full of files that look like I would not want to lose them. So, they fixed the /bin to /usr/bin thing for some packages but clearly not all packages in Arch.
I didn't read the rest of your long comment because this is incorrect.
/bin is a symlink to /usr/bin on arch. There are no files in a folder /bin. Any package that tries to install a file in /bin will throw an error that it conflicts with the filesystem package.
Arch goes one step further, there is no /sbin or /usr/sbin either. Both are also symlinks to /usr/bin
I didn't read the rest of your long comment because this is incorrect.
/bin is a symlink to /usr/bin on arch. There are no files in a folder /bin. Any package that tries to install a file in /bin will throw an error that it conflicts with the filesystem package.
Arch goes one step further, there is no /sbin or /usr/sbin either. Both are also symlinks to /usr/bin
This was completed about a decade ago.
https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2012-M...
https://archlinux.org/news/binaries-move-to-usrbin-requiring...