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

[Iain Hibbert <plunky%rya-online.net@localhost>]

On Tue, 1 Dec 2009, David Brownlee wrote:
> 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.

What if a "db" package had some libdata to install?  I think namespaces
should ideally be related to package names, and if we want to mix admin
functionality in with the package contents we should attempt to minimise
collisions..

iain

(of course, somebody could write a pkg_db program and shoot me down :)