On Aug 16,  9:01am, cgd@netbsd.org (Chris G. Demetriou) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: CVS commit: basesrc

| christos@zoulas.com (Christos Zoulas) writes:
| > >Log Message:
| > >Initial checkin.  Contains some tutorial-like examples, plus configurations.
| >
| > The examples belong to /usr/share/examples.
| 
| Certainly they should be installed there, but why move examples away
| from their programs in the source tree?!

1. precedence
2. because it is nice to have the examples around in sourceless trees
   [I have not checked if they are installed, so I might be wrong on that]

christos