Bikeshed: Moving around the var/db/pkg hierarchy

[Andrew Lankford]

Just wondering, but what are the reasons for putting port building 
options and package system meta data in the /var slice?  Maybe I'm just 
not the sort of FreeBSD user who would see a need to reserve a gigabyte 
or more for the /var partition, but /var/db/pkg keeps getting larger 
over successive upgrades even though the rest of /var really doesn't 
(assuming that programs don't dump all sorts of unclaimed rubbish in 
/var/tmp).  Why not place ports/package info in the same part of the 
tree where package files typically go, /usr/local?

Andrew Lankford