In message <5205.820809125@idt.unit.no>,Jarle Fredrik Greipsland writes:
>(Before the flames start: No, I'm not suggesting that what I descibe
>below be incorporated into NetBSD, or that the packages should be
>build according to these conventions.  Please look at it as an
>informational description of a software managment system only.  I hope
>someone may find it useful.)

An alternative piece of software which performs a similar function, and
it actually quite popular, is depot.  It does the basic manage the symlink
tree.

http://andrew2.andrew.cmu.edu/ANDREWII/depot.html