tech-pkg: Re: /usr/pkg/{etc,share}; /var/db/pkg

Subject: Re: /usr/pkg/{etc,share}; /var/db/pkg
To: Jim Bernard <jbernard@ox.mines.edu>
From: Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 07/31/1998 20:40:09

On 1998年7月31日, Jim Bernard wrote:
: > alleviates that concern quite neatly. (While I was at it, in fact, I moved
: > /usr/pkg/{info,man} into /usr/pkg/share and added symlinks for those too.)
: 
: This is what I do with /usr/local, and I'd be delighted to see it done
: officially with /usr/pkg as well (in which case we could dispense with the
: symlinks).
The difficulty of /not/ having the symlinks is the sheer number of pkgs that
expect "man" and "info" to be a single level under $PREFIX. That's a lot of
Makefiles to patch. :>
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