Subject: Re: let's choose a default var/ directory PKG_VARDIR
To: Jeremy C. Reed <reed@reedmedia.net>
From: Greg A. Woods <woods@weird.com>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 11/17/2002 04:13:01
[ On Saturday, November 16, 2002 at 21:05:28 (-0800), Jeremy C. Reed wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: let's choose a default var/ directory PKG_VARDIR
>
> Hopefully, we can force the use of /var/pkg with an easy to choose,
> working option for when building packages via pkgsrc.

Why do you insist on this silly idea of including "/pkg" in the pathname?

There is no /var/local, and for good reason -- it would, without any
reason for doing so, break up the consistency with all the rest of /var
as defined by hier(7)!

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