On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 01:36:00PM +0100, Magnus Therning wrote: > On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 1:27 PM, Kari Pahula <kaol@debian.org> wrote: > > I think it's pretty much analogous to dpkg's usage of /var/lib. > > (Possibly stupid question) Why /var/lib instead of /etc? Because it's meant to be manipulated with a program called ghc-pkg, not with a text editor.