wrstuden@netbsd.org (Bill Studenmund) writes:

[re: DESTDIR=/ builds]

> Agreed, I think we should officially de-support them. We can permit them
> to work, just don't support.

In which case, it would be very convenient to have a way of
automatically installing a successfully populated non-/ DESTDIR on top
of /.  (Compare the buildworld-installworld split in FreeBSD).

The current recommendation to build a release and then unpack the
resulting tarballs isn't very elegant.

-- 
Chris