[Python-Dev] bdist_* to stdlib? (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Mon Feb 20 23:49:59 CET 2006

Jan Claeys wrote:

That, in turn, is because nobody is so short of disk space that you really have to share /usr/share across architectures,

I can see diskless thin clients that boot from flash memory doing things like that? (E.g. having documentation and header files and other less-important stuff on an nfs mount?)

Having parts of the file system on NFS: sure, even have root on NFS: all the time.

But if you have two classes of machines (say, diskless SPARC and diskless x86 PCs) for which you have to provide different sets of binaries on NFS: why do you have to share /usr/share across architectures? It will only save you a small percentage of disk space, and at additional hassles.

Regards, Martin

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