Many programs in /usr/bin cannot act on all files if permissions do not allow it. Dirvish is no different. Dirvish is useful to regular users. They may want to backup something they own via SSH on another machine. The one use case where the root user wants to back-up the entire system to another disk mounted at /backups is only one use case. I think the Dirvish executables in /usr/bin does make sense.
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