Re: Packaging system effort

[Dan Melomedman <dan@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Josh Elsasser wrote:
> Another minor thing, although this may be too early to bring the point
> up.  I would like it if the package system didn't use /usr/local, like
> netbsd and /usr/pkg.  This makes it easier to keep software installed

See http://cr.yp.to/slashpackage.html.

slashpackage doesn't copy executables into the user's PATH using
symlinks to them instead. By default.