Subject: Re: Package config/var file paths proposal
To: Jim Wise <jwise@unicast.com>
From: Curt Sampson <cjs@cynic.net>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 01/09/1999 15:18:45
On Sat, 9 Jan 1999, Jim Wise wrote:

> 	  No system package will
> 	  install files into more than one of /, /usr, /usr/X11R6,
> 	  /var, and /usr/share.

If I understand you correctly, this means that, for example, the
package with /var/games would be separate from the package with
/usr/games.

What's the reasoning behind this?

cjs
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