Does anyone object to defaulting a new pkgsrc variable HOMEBASE
 	to ${VARBASE}/db and using for most packages. See below.

On Fri, 29 Sep 2006, David Brownlee wrote:

> On Fri, 29 Sep 2006, Julio M. Merino Vidal wrote:
>
>> On 9/29/06, David Brownlee <abs@absd.org> wrote:
>>>         When pkgsrc needs to create a homedir for a pkgsrc user in which
>>>         to store data (eg: pgsql, and a teamspeak-server package I'm
>>>         planning on committing after the freeze), some packages
>>>         default the homedir to ${PREFIX}/${USER}. I'd like to suggest they
>>>         instead uses ${VARBASE}/${USER}, or possibly a (someone _please_
>>>         give a better name that doesn't involve DIY) ${HOMEBASE}/${USER}.
>>>
>>>         What do people think?
>> 
>> I agree with this idea.  Files in ${PREFIX} should not change at all
>> except when installing or deinstalling packages, and home directories
>> will generally break the rule.
>
> 	OK, so packages should generally set PKG_HOME to ${HOMEBASE}/...
> 	Exceptions would be:
> 	    - ${VARBASE}/chroot/...
> 	    - ${VARBASE}/run/...
> 	    - ${PKG_SYSCONFDIR}
> 	    - Well known dirs, such as ${VARBASE}/{mail,news}.
>
> 	The next question is what should be the right default for
>       ${HOMEBASE}. At this point I would say ${VARBASE}/db


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