Re: PKG_DBDIR under LOCALHOST (Was: ... default PKG_DBDIR)

[David Brownlee <abs%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Mon, 31 Aug 2009, Alistair Crooks wrote:

> On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 10:23:47PM +0100, David Brownlee wrote:
> > On a tangent, were there plans to move The default PKG_DBDIR under PREFIX?
>
> Yes, there were - the concern (for me at the time) was violation of
> POLS, maybe it'd be more acceptable these days.  It's still my biggest
> regret we didn't put it under LOCALBASE by default when we first set
> things up, but we had no idea what we were starting then.
>
> Maybe we can plan for that after 2009Q3 is cut?

        I think that would be quite excellent. What would be the best
        plan? Leave PKG_DBDIR as a compile time option, or even have a
        build option which lets the tools check both locations and use
        the one which is marked as the 'newest'?
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