At 21:22 Uhr -0400 18.04.2002, Kevin Horton wrote: >At 7:45 PM +0200 18/4/02, Max Horn wrote: >>I myself have the "sw" directory moved to another partition, and >>share it between two systems, via symlinks works fine, and always >>has. >> > >The fact that you share the sw directory with two systems caught my >attention. I've got a G4 Cube with Fink, and an original iBook, >which is Finkless. The iBook only has a 3 GB hard drive, so I >really don't have room to install much extra stuff. The iBook and >the Cube are on an Airport Network, so I probably don't want to >simply have a sym link to the whole /sw directory, as it'll probably >be too slow.
I guess it would be pretty damn slow indeed. > >I've been pondering installing Fink on the iBook, and using sym >links to the Cube for some of the subdirectories under /sw. Could >this work? Yes, in the past I e.g. only symlinked /sw/src to only share the source files between systems. > Any clues which subdirectories should be on the iBook, and which >ones could be sym links to the Cube? Well, you probably could safely symlink /sw/src and /sw/fink, w/o a major speed hit (except for the "fink" command which has to access /sw/fink but if that isn't to be used often on the iBook, no problem). Max -- ----------------------------------------------- Max Horn Software Developer email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> phone: (+49) 6151-494890 _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
