On Wed, 10 Jan 2007, Ross Cameron wrote:

> Thats contrary to the FHS though, the only files that are supposed to be in
> /bin and /sbin are supposed to be programs that are needed for system
> recovery in "single user mode" and all "userland" programs are supposed to
> be under /usr/bin and /usr/sbin.

Ross, you may want to tell us what you are hoping to accomplish.

Are you building a Linux system using pkgsrc that uses Busybox as its 
core /bin and /sbin utilities?

I did similar by using +INSTALL scripts to copy the essential binaries 
into place.