On Sep 18, Jason Thorpe wrote
> What about stuff installed in / (like, say, the netbsd14_base pkg?).
> 

Same problem: / may be a different partition from /var.
One should not have to backup /var to be able to restore a fully functionnal
system. /var should only contain log or run-time files,
that is, files that can be lost without much harm in most cases.

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