Goals for first release (June/USENIX)
    Matthew Dillon 
    dillon at apollo.backplane.com
       
    Thu Mar 11 14:36:56 PST 2004
    
    
  
: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 at xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
    
    
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