Greg,

> What is the policy on package locations and directory tree?
> 
> Are all these necessary under /usr/pkg/?
> 
> ./dict
> ./doc
> ./examples
> ./misc
> ./nls
> ./nls/C
> ./nls/da_DK.ISO_8859-1
> [...]

[These are all sub-dirs of {PREFIX}/share, BTW.]

share/dict is necessary, especially if we're going to get an ispell
	package (we are).
share/doc is used for (on the box here) docs from bing, tkirc, and
	unzip, and also (not committed yet) ddd and msql.
share/examples is used for amanda and gm4 packages.
share/misc is used for some rpm cruft
share/nls/* is used for the various language messages - tcsh puts
	message files in here for: C, {Austrian, Swiss, Geman} types of
	German, Greek, and {Belgian,Canadian,French,Swiss} types of
	French.

> Some of the packages, particularly x11/, like to dump themselves in
> /usr/X11R6/.  In this case they proceed to create all the directories
> listed above under /usr/X11R6.

There's a new mtree file describing the X11 tree
(src/etc/mtree/BSD.x11.dist), which is on the CVS trunk, but not the 1.3
release branch yet (see the commit messages below). It works fine for
me, so I shall ask the release engineers to pull up the file, and the
necessary modifications to src/share/mk/bsd.port.mk to use this file.

agc
Mon Nov 17 00:17:45 PST 1997
Update of /cvsroot/src/etc/mtree
In directory netbsd1:/var/slash-tmp/cvs-serv17202
 
Log Message:
Initial import of FreeBSD's X11 mtree file.

Status:

Vendor Tag:	FREEBSD
Release Tags:	FreeBSD-current-1997-11-17
		
N src/etc/mtree/BSD.x11.dist

No conflicts created by this import

agc
Wed Nov 19 08:41:22 PST 1997
Update of /cvsroot/src/share/mk
In directory netbsd1:/var/slash-tmp/cvs-serv8120

Modified Files:
	bsd.port.mk 
Log Message:
Eliminate a nasty and horrible kluge by using the BSD.x11.dist when
checking the directory tree for an X11 package.

> Definitely makes X11 upgrades difficult.

Sorry. Should be better soon,
Alistair