I don’t know if this is really a “so broken” instance. /bin and /usr/bin (or sbin) have never been well separated, to the point where many distributions just symlink to /usr anyway. If you don’t want an initramfs to provide binaries you need them somewhere accessible.
/bin and /usr/bin (or sbin) have never been well separated, to the point where many distributions just symlink to /usr anyway.
They were(see FHS) and you show exactly how broken it became.
/usr supposed to have files that are needed only after first part of boot procees before mounting filesystems.
They were defined sure, but without distribution adherence they weren’t actually, this has been the case for a long time. Out of all the distributions, Gentoo is probably one of the most sensitive to this issue since most others have used initramfs or initrd for decades and Gentoo has always made it optional.
If the post was about FHS adherence I’d agree more.
And use bigger bandaid. Meanwhile initramfs and split-usr would greatly complement each other.
