William Allen writes:
> when you create a new root directory where does it go physically

/package is an access point, a way for software and users to confidently
access files. It is not a physical location.

The allocation of files to filesystems is, as usual, up to the system
administrator. Some reasonable default ways to set up /package: a big
separate filesystem; a symlink into /home; a symlink into /usr; etc.

For the (increasingly uncommon, but still important) sites that share
packages across machines: /package supports smooth file sharing inside
packages. See http://cr.yp.to/slashpackage/sharability.html.

---Dan

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