Thank you, Garrett. However, you complelely and utterly missed my point.

When I said "exported" I meant exactly that: One way or another we have now /usr/include/nfs/* containing the full NFS sources rather than just the relevant header files. If you're any kind of purist at all, this is immediately obvious as being rather evil. If I wanted to move my header files from one place to another I could easily be forgiven for wanting to simply tar up the contents of /usr/include and get ONLY the header files (rather than a pastiche' of links, files, sources and god-only-knows-what).

To put it another way, the /usr/include directory follows NO consistent paradigm - some things are links, others are copies of stuff, still others are just pointers into the sources. If you make with SHARED=copies then this unifies some of it by copying stuff across, but it could then be argued that the "non-copies" case should see /usr/include as *only* a link farm, with no actual files in there.

Am I the only one who sees this as somewhat inconsistent?

Jordan