As far as I can remember, here's how thing work:
One of the things that distinguishes most forms of unix is how/where you
install your software. Essentially, there's two types of Unix, System V,
and BSD. Most types borrow aspects from both types. 
On some flavours, installed software goes in /usr/local/. Also, the
locations of certain programs varries as well. Some flavours (IRIX for eg)
has its 'core BSD' programs in /usr/ucb

In NetBSD, installed software goes in /usr/pkg

Erik Huizing			4th year Computer Science
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On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, Tom Tarka wrote:

> Lloyd I Freese Jr wrote:
> 
> > I'm fairly new to NetBSD so forgive me if these are stupid questions.
> >
> > 1- I'm thinking of upgrading to 1.4.2. Will I need to
> > reinstall/rebuild the programs in /usr/pkg or will they still run
> > okay?
> 
> out of curiousity...is there a reason things get installed in /usr/pkg?
> Is this a standard BSD-ism...or...
> 
> For some reason I thought packages would be installed somewhere
> else...
> 
>         -t
> 
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