Re: distribution of package files in the filesystem

[Carlos Carvalho <carlos@fisica.ufpr.br>]

Bruce Perens (bruce@pixar.com) wrote on 24 April 1996 11:08:
 >Debian is designed so that you can export all of /usr . /usr should be
 >sharable as a read-only filesystem, and all configuration belongs in
 >/etc and /var . This should allow you to have a master server export
 >95% of debian to systems with small disks, etc.

I know, and I've done it a lot already. The problem is when you want
to export parts of /usr only, because the machine already has some of
it. I want to keep what's possible local, because it's much faster.

I see no drawback in my proposal except that it's not standard
practice. If there are problems with it please speak up.

Carlos