In article <[🔎] 873f104th5.fsf@raven.ots.utexas.edu> you wrote: : Why not just have rex-non-free rex-contrib and rex, etc. I suppose this would be ok, but my own reasonableness trigger would jitter less if it were something more like rex/free rex/non-free rex/contrib You end up with fewer symlinks for the 'stable' and 'unstable' pseudo-trees, too. Bdale