On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, Tom Tarka wrote:

> 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...

	/usr/pkg contains files installed by the package system,
	/usr/local is for your manually installed files/applications.

	It makes the most sense when you want to upgrade a system and
	want to carry across all your local stuff and not have to wade
	through thousands of pkg installed files to find them :)

		David/absolute