On Thu, May 25, 2000 at 11:46:31AM -0700, Greywolf wrote:
> At the risk of sounding like a dinosaur, with the way we're proposing to
> gut /var's original purpose (which IS the place to hold the package
> database, btw -- if you want to export it RO, do so, but I think it's
> perfectly fine where it is!), gee, maybe we should just get rid of /var
> altogether.

No, /var is perfectly fine for moving stuffs.
But /var/db/pkg only change when we're changing something in /usr/pkg, and
when we change something in /usr whe have to write something in /var as
well. This is just silly, and make sharing of /usr/pkg harder.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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