On Jan 7, Curt Sampson wrote
> If that's the case, why have any separate directories for packages
> at all? Why not just install the files in /usr/bin, etc.?
> 

I can see 2 reasons for that:
- on small disks machine, I want to have the base system on the local disk
  but the additional packages (which can be big, look at TeX of emacs)
  on a server. Try to do that with a redhat or debian install ...
- on -current machines, I want to have a clear distinction between the
  binaries from the base system and third parties binaries (which comes
  often from precompiled packages, and thus are 1.3.x binaries).

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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