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Re: pkg_install: move pkgdb under ${PREFIX}



On Sat, 29 Aug 2020 14:40:41 -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
> I think we are more or less ending up that everything thinkgs that pkgdb
> or .pkgdb is ok and more prefer pkgdb.

With my sysadmin cap on, I have seriously frowned on dot files outside 
of users' homes as a violation of POLA ever since I learned about SunOS 
/etc/.cshrc the hard way. 

So my 0.02 EUR are on "pkgdb".

Cheerio,
Hauke

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