Subject: Re: layered software on NetBSD
To: Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld@orchard.east-arlington.ma.us>
From: Scott Ellis <scotte@netbsd.warped.com>
List: current-users
Date: 03/20/1997 11:22:51
On Thu, Mar 20, 1997 at 10:14:25AM -0500, Bill Sommerfeld wrote:
> 
> As an alternative, installing into /usr/local/PKG-VER with symlinks
> from /usr/local might also work..

Yes, this seems like a good method.  This lets the user easily uninstall
things they don't want (by just rm'ing PKG-VER), and cleaning up a
few broken symlinks that result from that.  One of my personal
peeves is having software go into /usr/local/ and then when you go to
uninstall/updte it have to track down all of the cruft in /usr/local/lib
etc that the package brought with it.

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