On 07-Aug-98 Curt Sampson spoke unto us all:
#  Yes. Also, I'm not sure that the databases themselves should go in
#  /var; it's the sort of thing that can get quite large (which on
#  many systems /var isn't sized to handle), and they certainly don't
#  fall into the category of `log, temporary, transient and spool
#  files.' What about under /usr/pkg/mysql?

How about /usr/pkg/share?  

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Tim Rightnour    -  root@garbled.net
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