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From: Thierry Thomas <thierry@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Stage and /var ?
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Hello,

How should we stagify ports writing out of their $PREFIX for
good reasons, e.g. a statedir like /var/foo/$PORTNAME.

I don't like the idea of $PREFIX/var, and prefer the real /var.

Thanks for your suggestions.
-- 
Th. Thomas.