[Techtalk] Why is life without X important? (was: Re: info) X is not the point!

[Malcolm Tredinnick]

On Sat, Sep 07, 2002 at 11:08:15PM -0700, Dave North wrote:
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> 	Speaking of which, why do we need "share" in there?
> /doc is still under /usr, so... bleah. I digress.

Not everything under /usr can be shared between machines. The stuff in
/usr/share/ can be (hence the "share"). So if you are administering a
large organisation and want to keep maintenance to a minimum, you may
mount /usr/share of a single server (or if you are setting up images for
a diskless terminal, or ... ).

I know you didn't want to know that, but tough luck. :)

Malcolm