/usr/share
Hi,
As I recall, the whole idea behind /usr/share, and indeed /usr itself,
is that it can be NFS-mounted in a read-only fashion by other
computers on a network. This is certainly a great idea, but I have to
ask: why does Debian not support this?
dpkg is not very smart when it comes to these things. If you install
package A on the server, you probably have to install package A on the
each client as well (unless it is *entirely* contained in /usr or
/usr/share, as the case may be). Well, this is not good, because dpkg
will barf when refused permission to touch /usr.
How can we deal with this? Also, what about the issue of keeping
packages in sync between server and client?
Thanks,
John
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