hello, i'm not shure about what the LSB says to this but many progs search for tools at places where they aren't. for example, i have the coreutils in /usr but firefox, since verison 3 (minefield), tries to start /bin/ls from the start-script. possibly that's where ls should be. i'm not shure. however, i remembered glibc and the special --prefix=/usr option, which is interpreted as "system main installation". glibc then installs to both / and /usr and creates symlinks as it is expected to be ever since under linux. possibly, coreutils could offer such an (LSB-compliant or historically correct) prefix or special option to put the single tools to their 'correct' or 'common' places.
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