add a note suggesting that LOCALBASE should only be for pkgsrc and not

shared with other programs to prevent conflicts.  Hopefully this will help
avoid people trying to do things like LOCALBASE=/usr as in PR pkg/10783.

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/Packages.txt b/Packages.txt
index 57236ae119f..7a558749fea 100644
--- a/Packages.txt
+++ b/Packages.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# $NetBSD: Packages.txt,v 1.105 2000/08/03 14:56:51 hubertf Exp $
+# $NetBSD: Packages.txt,v 1.106 2000/08/16 19:08:20 dmcmahill Exp $
 ###########################################################################
 
 			==========================
@@ -226,9 +226,14 @@ your packages tree. So, to use /usr/local, set
 
 	LOCALBASE=/usr/local
 
-in your environment.  There is, of course, one exception to this - X11
-packages are traditionally installed in the X11 tree. The definition
-used to identify the root of the X11 tree is the X11BASE definition.
+in your environment.  Please note that you should use a root which is 
+dedicated to packages and not shared with other programs (ie, do not try
+and use LOCALBASE=/usr).  This is to prevent possible conflicts between
+programs and other files installed by the package system and whatever else
+may have been installed there.  There is, of course, one exception to 
+this - X11 packages are traditionally installed in the X11 tree. The
+definition used to identify the root of the X11 tree is the X11BASE
+definition.
 
 It is possible to install X11 packages in the LOCALBASE tree, for
 which you must install the xpkgwedge package