RE: newbie learning to use packages

> -----Original Message-----
> From: netbsd-help-owner@xxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:netbsd-help-owner@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Alistair Crooks
> Sent: Monday, October 28, 2002 3:52 PM
> To: Michael D. Spence
> Cc: 'Perry E. Metzger'; netbsd-help@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: newbie learning to use packages
> 
> I don't know of any packages which use /usr/local as their PREFIX or
> LOCALBASE.  We have some that install into /usr (OK, we have one that
> installs there, the pkgsrc/pkgtools/pkg_install package, which is
> essentially the NetBSD package tools in a convenient pkgsrc format).

I'm pretty sure I've never encountered a NetBSD package that actually 
installed into /usr/local.  But I am pretty sure I've seen /usr/local 
mentioned in man pages and other documentation (e.g., examples) [Hmmm, 
"for example, examples..."].  Anyway, I have an account at an ISP that 
uses NetBSD.  They use /usr/local instead of /usr/pkg, but that may be 
due to reasons of history or some other factors of which I know nothing.

I'm new to NetBSD, as you may have guessed.

Michael D. Spence
Mockingbird Data Systems, Inc.