[ On Fri, July 31, 1998 at 20:40:09 (-0400), Todd Vierling wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: /usr/pkg/{etc,share}; /var/db/pkg
>
> On Fri, 31 Jul 1998, Jim Bernard wrote:
> 
> : > alleviates that concern quite neatly.  (While I was at it, in fact, I moved
> : > /usr/pkg/{info,man} into /usr/pkg/share and added symlinks for those too.)
> : 
> :   This is what I do with /usr/local, and I'd be delighted to see it done
> : officially with /usr/pkg as well (in which case we could dispense with the
> : symlinks).

me too!

> The difficulty of /not/ having the symlinks is the sheer number of pkgs that
> expect "man" and "info" to be a single level under $PREFIX.  That's a lot of
> Makefiles to patch.  :>

Well, for /pkg this should *not* be a problem (that's what pkgsrc
patches are for, no?  ;-)

However for /local I do agree that it's useful to have symlinks such as
"man -> share/man" and "info -> share/info".

-- 
							Greg A. Woods

+1 416 443-1734      VE3TCP      <gwoods@acm.org>      <robohack!woods>
Planix, Inc. <woods@planix.com>; Secrets of the Weird <woods@weird.com>