"Brian J. Murrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 06:54:05PM +0200, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:
> > 
> > But why would you want to run these tools from the clients?
> 
> Because the clients may be dual-boot Linux/Windows boxes and may have
> some fonts on them that the user of that particular box wants to
> access.  It would be nice if that user "contributed" them to the
> server for all to use, but a) that is a much more complicated problem
> (i.e. how does drakfont on a client "send" fonts to the server to be
> installed in /usr?), and b) they might be licensed only to that user
> to use.

Ok I see. But then I think it's not so interesting to have a
separate /usr, if the machines can be different (windows, fonts
etc) there can be many situations where anyway you want to
install packages for only one machine, thus invading the /usr..
no?


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Guillaume Cottenceau - http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/

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