Jan Engelhardt wrote >> The /etc and preinstalled /var are not that big and savings will be minor >> comparing to effort. > > The idea is that I would not need to install kde3U (/opt/kde3=250 MB, > YMMV) and OpenOfficeU (most likely just as much) on every client and > instead devote that space to something else.
I can't resist to remark that you don't have these problems on diskless clients who mount / from the server and use a link mechanism for client-dependent files in /etc to /etc/local. You don't install any RPM on the client in such a case, and (if you don't need /tmp and swap on a local hard disk) clients can even work completely without a harddisk. We've been successfully deploying that concept for years now. But I remember you judging that concept as "Bah." :-) Anyway, why can't you reach the effect with your unionfs when you hold the client-dependent files on special /etc for your client? Why do you want to install RPMs on the diskless clients? Packages like gimp don't need any different files in /etc/ for two clients, and so do 99% of all packages in SuSE. So I really don't see the need for such R-rpms... cu, Frank -- Dipl.-Inform. Frank Steiner Web: http://www.bio.ifi.lmu.de/~steiner/ Lehrstuhl f. Bioinformatik Mail: http://www.bio.ifi.lmu.de/~steiner/m/ LMU, Amalienstr. 17 Phone: +49 89 2180-4049 80333 Muenchen, Germany Fax: +49 89 2180-99-4049 * Rekursion kann man erst verstehen, wenn man Rekursion verstanden hat. * --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
