On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 05:28:54PM -0500, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
  | Luke Mewburn <lukem@netbsd.org> writes:
  | > You still do not address the other concern raised:
  | > 
  | > 	[...] a NetBSD install creating and/or changing the ownership and
  | > 	permission of these directories may not be desired.
  | > 
  | > (A mount point does not solve this issue.)
  | 
  | I don't understand the concern.
  | 
  | You said the problem might be "/home is NFS mounted" -- well, if /home
  | is NFS mounted, creating the directory causes no harm -- you need such
  | a directory as a mount point ANYWAY. I don't understand your "(A mount
  | point...)" comment.

[I thought this was clear in my comment, and in the context of the
rest of the /home and the previous /usr/local discussions.  Obviously not.]


Using a mount point for /home, a symlink to another directory, or any
other method still does not prevent the extraction/installation from:

    *	Changing the ownership and permissions of /home or /usr/local
	to what the default NetBSD installation has.  (Or any other
	locally maintained and likely to be shared directories which
	are generally considered not specific to the operating-system.)

    *	Creating a missing /home, /usr/local, or any children of /usr/local.


Luke.