Bikeshed: Moving around the var/db/pkg hierarchy

[Andrew Pantyukhin]

On 6/10/07, Andrew Lankford <lankfordandrew at charter.net> wrote:
> 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?

csup/cvsup, portsnap, freebsd-update, mysql, e-mail,
logs, ..., ..., ... all use it because they've all
traditionally used it for ages and it's written down
in hier(8)