On Tue, 13 Nov 2001, David Brownlee wrote:
> 	We currently have a single package dir in /var/db/pkg - at the
> 	worst case the same mechanism should work as ${PREFIX}/db (or
> 	similar), with a little checking of code.

That's not the worst case, but the usual case.
You also have to think about cases where pkgs were installed in really
non-standard places (like someone installed a pkg that was compiled with a
custom LOCALBASE or X11BASE).

I'm not saying it can't be done, but some thought is appropriate.


 - Hubert

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