Description:
archlinux does not allow /bin and /sbin to be symlinks to /usr/bin and /usr/sbin. I request the packages be modified to allow this type of configuration.

Additional info:
* package version(s)
dhcpcd 5.6.4-1
iproute2 3.6.0-2
systemd-sysvcompat 197-4
bash 4.2.042-2

* config and/or log files etc.


Steps to reproduce:
I was following along the steps in the Beginners' Guide. After I mounted the all my file-systems I created two symlinks. I set up /bin to point to /usr/bin and /sbin to /usr/sbin. I then continued along through the tutorial. The first noticed there was a problem when I ran the mkinitcpio script. The script was unable to find the depmod program. (/usr/bin/mkinitcpio: line 333: depmod: command not found)
I noticed there were problems with my symlinks. In the bin and sbin directories there were symlinks that were using relative paths. Therefore those links were broken. There were also circular symlinks. Examples of the circular symlinks are the ip and the dhcpcd commands. The file /usr/sbin/ip was a symlink to /sbin/ip. This ended up pointing to itself.
I was able to get my system up and running with base and base-devel installed after fixing a few symlinks. I also had to uninstall packages, create /sbin, re-install the packages, copy programs to /usr/sbin, and recreate the /sbin symlink. This will work until one of the packages that were causing the problem had an upgrade. At that point the upgrade would not install.