Subject: Re: 'base homedir' for pkgsrc created users - Speak Now!
To: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@britannica.bec.de>
From: David Brownlee <abs@NetBSD.org>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 10/04/2006 13:25:09
On Wed, 4 Oct 2006, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 12:34:22PM +0100, David Brownlee wrote:
>> Does anyone object to defaulting a new pkgsrc variable HOMEBASE
>> to ${VARBASE}/db and using for most packages. See below.
>
> I don't think the default value is a good idea, since many packages
> store informations not db-like into it. ${VARBASE}/lib is IMO a better
> idea (from LFS).
OK, what about postgres & mysql? We can quickly end up with
HOMEBASE_LIB HOMEBASE_DB HOMEBASE_CHROOT etc...
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