Subject: Re: newbie learning to use packages
To: None <spence@panix.com>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 10/28/2002 16:10:43
"Michael D. Spence" <spence@panix.com> writes:

> > I don't know of any packages which use /usr/local as their PREFIX or
> > LOCALBASE.  We have some that install into /usr (OK, we have one that
> > installs there, the pkgsrc/pkgtools/pkg_install package, which is
> > essentially the NetBSD package tools in a convenient pkgsrc format).
> 
> I'm pretty sure I've never encountered a NetBSD package that actually 
> installed into /usr/local.  But I am pretty sure I've seen /usr/local 
> mentioned in man pages and other documentation (e.g., examples)

If you find such things, it is probably because someone overlooked
something. You should submit a bug report so patches can go into the
package to fix that.


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Perry E. Metzger		perry@piermont.com