On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 11:44:23AM -0800, Ranga Nathan wrote:
> When installing s/w, some stuff goes into /var. Many of them temporary and
> some not-so-temporary.
> What to people do with /var when sharing /usr

/var is intended to be unique to a particular system image, as is
/etc. You don't want to try to share /var or /etc -- see Bill Scully's
presentation on a elegant way to handle this that he developed for
CA's development Linux systems.

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