On Fri, 18 Sep 1998 11:08:04 +0200 
 Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr> wrote:

 > Getting the rigth location for the pkg db files is not easy, because
 > the layout may differ (on could have one big partition for /,
 > where someone else could have a partition for /, one for /usr and a shared
 > /usr/share ...).
 > But I really think /var is not the rigth place to keep informations of what
 > is installed on /usr ...

What about stuff installed in / (like, say, the netbsd14_base pkg?).

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