Subject: Re: 'base homedir' for pkgsrc created users - Speak Now!
To: None <tech-pkg@netbsd.org>
From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@britannica.bec.de>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 10/04/2006 13:44:10
On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 12:34:22PM +0100, David Brownlee wrote:
> Does anyone object to defaulting a new pkgsrc variable HOMEBASE
> to ${VARBASE}/db and using for most packages. See below.
I don't think the default value is a good idea, since many packages
store informations not db-like into it. ${VARBASE}/lib is IMO a better
idea (from LFS).
Joerg