Subject: Re: Proposal: new binary package format
To: Matthias Scheler <tron@lyssa.owl.de>
From: Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 05/31/1999 14:35:37
On 31 May 1999, Matthias Scheler wrote:

: > While we're at it it would be nice if pkg_add could be told to not add
: > 'shareables files' (e.g. /usr/pkg/share/...).
: 
: How do you want to recognize such files? The fact that a file is installed
: in "/usr/pkg/share" doesn't really mean anything.

Actually, it does.  /usr/pkg/share should be shareable across different
architectures -- and I do share mine (it's actually a symlink to
/usr/share/pkg).

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-- Todd Vierling (Personal tv@pobox.com; Bus. todd_vierling@xn.xerox.com)