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.

> Since
> the fonts are installed in /usr, mounting /usr from the server is
> enough to get the new fonts?

Yes, if they are collected from all the clients.  The clients are much
more likely to be dual-boot with Windows partitions that the server
will be.

b.

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Brian J. Murrell

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