Why switch to src/dist?

"Jeremy C. Reed" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.devel.general
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
A cvs message for basesrc/usr.sbin/tcpdump/Makefile said:

   switch to use src/dist/tcpdump.  source code has been checked and the
   new tree organization should give the same (or more) decoding
   functionalities.

How does the dist tree organization help?

(I am just curious.)

Thanks,

   Jeremy C. Reed
   http://bsd.reedmedia.net/
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