>>>>> "Tim" == Tim Rightnour <root@garbled.net> writes:
    Tim> On 12-Mar-00 Jason R Thorpe wrote:
    >> This is a lose.  Once the user installs a package, he shouldn't have
    >> to copy stuff around to make it go.  I think this is going to be a serious
    >> negative for our pkg system.

    Tim> I agree.  How about having the pkg system do something like this:

    Tim> Have an rc.pkg.conf and an /etc/rc.pkg.d directory.  All packages auto-install
    Tim> start/stop scripts (when needed/available) into the rc.pkg.d directory, and add
    Tim> a line to the rc.pkg.conf script saying:
    Tim> PKGNAME= NO

  okay, but how do I share /usr/pkg between machines?  There are things that
I may want all of my cluster to run.

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