Special Considerations When Creating Encaps
The Encap Target Directory acts as an abstraction of the individual
package directories. A given piece of software may look for its own
files in the Package Directory, but other packages and config files
should always reference them in the Encap Target area so that
references do not need to be changed when a package is upgraded.
Local customizations, such as emacs's site-lisp
directory or Perl's site_perl tree. should always be looked
for in the Target Directory. This is done so that local customizations
can live in their own Encaps, but get linked in to the Target and get
found there by the package which access them.
Mark D. Roth <roth@uiuc.edu>