Re: Goals for first release (June/USENIX)

[Matthew Dillon <dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

:On a purely practical level, you're going to have a heck of a lot of
:work converting all the software that expects to live in /usr/local or
:/usr/X11R6.  Not that I mind that someone does this, because FreeBSD
:would like to be PREFIX-agnostic, so you'll be removing some difficult
:bugs for us too :-)
:
:Kris

    No, you missed the second part... that's what the varsym's and softlinks
    are for.  The idea, though, is that the *only* thing we would put in the
    standard places (aka /usr/local/bin) on behalf of packages would be
    softlinks and varsyms.

    I don't really care what we call the partition, but it should probably
    not be /usr.  i.e. for any serious system the packages install directory
    should be its own partition separate from /usr.

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
					<dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>