Apologies if this is an old worn-out topic, search engine and forum searches didn’t lead me anywhere openSUSE-specific.
/bin and /sbin becoming symlinks to /usr/bin and /usr/sbin is a change that occurred quite a while ago now and seems to be at this point fairly uniform across the Linux world.
Arch also went further and just put everything into /usr/bin, making /usr/sbin also just a symlink. As of recently, Fedora is following suit.
Is this something that has been discussed for openSUSE too? Are there good reasons not to do it in the modern day? If there have been previous discussions people can link to, I’d love to read them.
I do notice that on my Tumbleweed install, openSUSE does still only put /usr/sbin into the PATH of root, and not of normal users. This maintains a small practical distinction between the two and is in contrast to many other distros which put both into the PATH for everyone, and that was one of Fedora’s justifications for merging.