> I understand that all the prebuilt binaries use /usr/pkg for history 
> sake. However, it is clear that /usr/local is probably more desired 
> by many people in practice. Would the package gods consider having 
> *two* trees at 
> ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/<release>/<arch>/? Add in a 
> layer of "usrpkg" and "usrlocal", with the current directories 
> symlinked to "usrpkg".

I personally think that it's beyond the pkgsrc system's task to treat
>=2 LOCALBASEs at the same time. It's simply not flexible but
confusing that /usr/pkg and /usr/local coexist. /usr/local shouldn't
be default LOCALBASE of pkgsrc just because it has not been so for a
log time.

Masao

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Masao Uebayashi <uebayasi@soum.co.jp>