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From: Coranth Gryphon <gryphon@healer.com>
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To: asami@cs.berkeley.edu, peter@taronga.com
Subject: Re: ports startup scripts
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> You guys have lost me long ago, but just one thing I noticed....
>  * Package data could equally well go in /usr/local. It really doesn't belong
>  * in /var.
> 
> That won't work, because the location where the package is installed
> is also part of the pkg data.  In other words, if we put them into
> /usr/local, we won't be able to find /usr/local. :)
> Satoshi

The package data in question is the list of what packages are currently
installed.

-coranth

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