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John Baldwin wrote:

 >Most FreeBSD packages do allow you to use an arbitray prefix.  See
 >pkg_add(8) for more info.  The debate seems to be that djb@ doesn't
 >want any precompiled packages to have that flexibility for whatever
 >reason. 

If anyone is interested in the "whatever" see  
http://cr.yp.to/compatibility.html