Please no talking on this bug since it is a tracker. Many linux distributions have adopted the /usr merge (merging /bin, /sbin and /lib* into their counterparts in /usr). This bug is here to track what needs to be fixed so that the usr merge can be available in Gentoo.
For this bug, note that merged /usr/bin and /usr/sbin is also considered in scope, and we should take it into account for merged-usr planning. (It's not a given that we'll do merged-bin-and-sbin too, but FWIW, I do think we should.)