On Thu, 25 May 2000, Manuel Bouyer wrote:

# Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 22:10:59 +0200
# From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
# To: Greywolf <greywolf@starwolf.com>
# Cc: Robert Elz <kre@munnari.OZ.AU>, current-users@netbsd.org
# Subject: Re: /var/db/pkg
# 
# On Thu, May 25, 2000 at 11:46:31AM -0700, Greywolf wrote:
# > At the risk of sounding like a dinosaur, with the way we're proposing to
# > gut /var's original purpose (which IS the place to hold the package
# > database, btw -- if you want to export it RO, do so, but I think it's
# > perfectly fine where it is!), gee, maybe we should just get rid of /var
# > altogether.
# 
# No, /var is perfectly fine for moving stuffs.
# But /var/db/pkg only change when we're changing something in /usr/pkg, and
# when we change something in /usr whe have to write something in /var as
# well. This is just silly, and make sharing of /usr/pkg harder.

Nonsense.  You can still share /usr/pkg (if you choose to use /usr/pkg).
You just don't give all the machines access to the pkg database, which
I don't necessarily see as a downer.

# --
# Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
# --


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