<jwise@draga.com> (Jim Wise) writes:

> Anyway, the fact is that shared /usr is not only commonly used, but has
> been supported by NetBSD for ~ever.  If you want to stop supporting
> that, that's a valid topic for discussion on tech-userlevel, or
> tech-install, perhaps -- in the mean time, we shouldn't be just yanking
> it away.

We should really document exactly what we support on this
front. There's a vague notion that a shared or remote /usr is
supported, but we've never been clear exactly what that means.

Networks have gotten more complicated, and the tools needed to make
them run have proliferated. Supporting, out of the box, remote /usr
over all possible networking configurations strikes me as absurd. 

The way out of this is to pick and document the boundary of supportability.

        - Nathan