Al Snell <alaric@alaric-snell.com> wrote:

> installed packages to be managed centrally. NFS sharing the root
> filesystem has implications that people might want to avoid! Keeping
> everything out of the root partition makes it possible to have shared
> stuff, while still allowing a machine which has lost network to be able to
> boot and fix the networking...

That is only one of its advantages. What I really like of having
the base system separated from 3rd-party applications is, that I 
can remove /usr/pkg (or whatever prefix is) and still have the same
NetBSD I installed.

-Dominik

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