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From: Richard Rauch <rauch@rice.edu>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 05/21/2002 22:08:37
Re. http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-pkg/2002/05/21/0012.html
FWIW: I'd rather not see that as a default. As Dave Burgess points out,
it's nice to geerally know that pkg stuff goes in /usr/pkg, rather than
poking itself by default into whatever nook or cranny the package creator
thought best.
(Note, however, that some packages, e.g. tetex, send stuff to
non-/usr/pkg/ directors. tetex's fonts now wind up in /var/ for some
reason; they *used* to go to /usr/pkg/. I'm not sure why tetex was
changed, but my /var by chance is big enough that this isn't a major issue
for me.)
``I probably don't know what I'm talking about.'' --rauch@math.rice.edu