gnuplot woes

Ben Scott dragonhawk at gmail.com
Tue Apr 8 15:28:12 EDT 2008


On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 2:54 PM, Tom Buskey <tom at buskey.name> wrote:
> None of the package systems work well with /usr/local on NFS.

  FWIW and FYI, the Linux filesystem hierarchy standard (FHS) is
designed such that /usr can be replicated out, so you can do things
like a read-only NFS export or rsync for centralized software
maintenance.  But...

> And if I update and NFS /usr/local I can break all the systems at once.

... that doesn't eliminate the need for testing, of course.  :)

-- Ben


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