Fedora lacks obvious support for /usr/share

jack craig jackc at linuxlighthouse.com
Mon Jul 27 20:25:12 UTC 2009


On 07/26/2009 02:58 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> I find no easily location information on actually sharing /usr/share. 
> It was introduced by Sun in SunOS as a filesystem which could be 
> shared between all machines on a given release to save disk space. 
> Disk space is now cheap, but it would be nice to have a common place 
> to put things shared on a site basis.
>
> Currently I use the /common filesystem for my site local stuff, and 
> I'm thinking that something in the OS would be appropriate to the 
> original concept for /usr/share, not for disk saving but for 
> consistency. Since the stuff there doesn't hurt if there is material 
> present which is not needed, I wonder if I'm missing an obvious tool 
> to take advantage of this.
>
whats wrong with nfs?

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