Bikeshed: Moving around the var/db/pkg hierarchy

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
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