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



2009/12/1 Julio Merino <jmmv%netbsd.org@localhost>:
> On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 3:40 PM, David Brownlee <abs%netbsd.org@localhost> 
> wrote:
>>> What is the proposed new location?
>>
>> I believe LOCALBASE/db
>
> Why create a new top-level directory? ÂI believe libdata fills
> perfectly the purpose of the packages database (and hence why I've
> always kept it in LOCALBASE/libdata/pkgdb myself).

Because its package meta-data rather than package data I would have a
preference for db rather than libdata/pkgdb, but I'm not religious
about it - if you can find a consensus for libdata/pkgdb then I would
be OK with that.


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