--new-system option to install tools to their common places

[Dennis Heuer]

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.

whatever,
dennis