>>>>> "Manuel" == Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr> writes:

    Manuel> On Sep 18, Jason Thorpe wrote
    >> What about stuff installed in / (like, say, the netbsd14_base pkg?).
    >> 

    Manuel> Same problem: / may be a different partition from /var.  One
    Manuel> should not have to backup /var to be able to restore a fully
    Manuel> functionnal system. /var should only contain log or run-time
    Manuel> files, that is, files that can be lost without much harm in most
    Manuel> cases.

  I would agree. This is my major problem with current pkg-system. It
should use /etc/pkg or something. Perhaps the rules should look like:

  if -d $PKG_BASE/etc/pkg
  then
	PKG_DB=$PKG_BASE/etc/pkg
  else
	PKG_DB=/etc/pkg
  fi

  This solves the problem with the netbsd14_base pkg, and also puts
everything where you expect it (/etc/pkg) unless you go and create a
seperate pkg tree.


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