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Fwd: /usr/local



This came to me but was supposed to arrive at the list (but the list
address had an extra "s"). I've forwarded it to the list. (Sorry I don't
know enough about Linux to address your question.)  --Kent

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>Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 14:37:45 -0300 
>From: "Paulo J. da Silva e Silva" <rsilva@ime.usp.br>
>To: debian-users@lists.debian.org
>Subject: /usr/local
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>Hello,
>
>I would like to ask a question. I noticed that some important packages in
Hamm
>(Latex and Emacs, for example) write in /usr/local during installation (at
>least they create directories there).
>
>Well, our local system administrator is having problem with this. It has
>decided to mount /usr/local using nfs as read only (then you would have an
>unique copy of /usr/local in all machines). When he tries to install any
>package that writes in /usr/local it aborts installation.
>
>He figured a temporary solution. He simply unmounts /usr/local after
>installing and then the install scripts are smart enough to deal with this.
>Is there any better solution?
>
>Other point, why this new behavior? I thought /usr/local was an administrator
>responsibility...
>
>Thank you all.
>
>Paulo.
>
>
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