In article <Pine.GSO.4.01.9809291509450.3583-100000@alpine.unicast.com> you write:
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>What follows is a quick proposal for how we can implement System
>Packages for NetBSD.  I am posting this now to generate
>discussion/debate/flames/suggestions which will hopefully lead to this
>being hammered into a more concrete plan.
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This looks pretty good to me.  I've been giving some thoughts to this
issue recently, and most of what you've written echoes the considerations
I've come up with.

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>1.2.1 Root/User/Share separation
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>  The most common shared configurations are to have a system share
>  /usr/share from the network, and have all other filesystems local,
>  or to share the entirety of /usr from the network, and maintain
>  local root and /var hierarchies, possibly as a single filesystem.
>  Other commonly shared hierarchies include /usr/X11R6 and /usr/pkg.
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This is definitely something which I am concerned about.  I made some
attempts to address this last week in tech-pkg.  Specifically, I went
through all of the current set files other than base and proposed steps
for cleaning out the few files outside of /usr.  Hopefully these will
provide a start.

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>				Jim Wise
>				jwise@unicast.com
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jdarrow

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John Darrow
Computing Services, Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL
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