[ On Wed, September 23, 1998 at 17:00:00 (-0400), Todd Vierling wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: Notes and Thoughs on System Packages
>
> Anyone trying to admin shared partitions on more than one system while
> fooling with base system binaries "deserves to lose."  It's way too prone to
> error, and people tend to share the wirdest pieces of the tree (not always
> just /usr).
> 
> Sure, you can admin from one client if the server isn't the same OS, but you
> need to admin from _that_ client, or otherwise only work with files that
> restrict themselves to the shared filesystem - the latter of which is not
> possible for base binaries.

Aye.

That's much better said that I did.  :-)

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