On Dec 16, Curt Sampson wrote
> You can. Some users of the workstations may not be able to. It's
> very convenient to be able to type `pkg_info | grep Xaw' to see if
> that widget set is installed, and get the version number of it. Or
> just `pkg_info' on an unfamiliar machine to see what's there.
> 
> I don't see any disadvantage to moving these data from /var into
> /pkg or /usr/pkg or whatever we end up calling it.
> 

I'd really like to see these moved too. For now, a full backup of a system
requires a backup of /var too, which is buggy. This would also add
the availability of the packages metadata on all machine for a shared /usr/pkg,
but this is less an issue for me (althouh I admit it can be important for some
setup).

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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