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On Sat, 9 Jan 1999, Curt Sampson wrote:

>On Sat, 9 Jan 1999, Jim Wise wrote:
>
>> 	  No system package will
>> 	  install files into more than one of /, /usr, /usr/X11R6,
>> 	  /var, and /usr/share.
>
>If I understand you correctly, this means that, for example, the
>package with /var/games would be separate from the package with
>/usr/games.
>
>What's the reasoning behind this?

A lot of people share /usr, or at least /usr/share between many machines
on a network.  In cases where /usr has been mounted from a server with
/usr/games installed, a client machine should still be able to install
/var/games -- even though /usr may not be writable to them.

Note that this goes hand in hand with another new feature -- it will
be necessary to split the _registration_ of packages similarly, so
that, eg /usr/X11R6/etc/pkg (or some such) contains registration of
packages in /usr/X11R6.  This means that clients in a network
environment will know what packages they have, even though they were
installed from the server.  Alistair (IIRC) already has patches that
provide this functionality, although they are not in-tree at the moment.

- -- 
				Jim Wise
				jwise@unicast.com

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