"Brian J. Murrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This is an important goal. I am sure I am not the only user that > wants to be able to nfs mount /usr. Anyone with even a > medium-to-largish size farm of Mandrake boxes could/should be NFS > mounting /usr.
yep, good goal i do agree with. > To this end, I will start with this one: > > - drakfont tries to add fonts to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/drakfont [and urpmi] but I still don't get why drakfont and urpmi would need to not touch /usr (pardon my stupidity if I've still not understood well the /usr thingy, I've not experience with nfs mounted /usr), since these are "admin" tools they need to be run on the server containing /usr as a local disk, so it's correct? if we continue your reasoning, there is an inconsistency in rpm anyway since the rpm db is in /var/lib/rpm (local to clients) but the files installed/removed when this db is changed are in /usr (distant from clients).. maybe i've not understood the whole point, i do agree :). but i'd like to understand. -- Guillaume Cottenceau - http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/
