On 6/27/05, John H. Robinson, IV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I understand that part, but I'd expect binaries to be able to live on > > a file servers too, even for multiple architectures. > > /usr/bin/vim is different on PPC than on i386. You cannot share /usr
Sure. > (and thusly /usr/bin) between architectures. You can with /usr/share, as > it is architecture independent. I guess the tools aren't capable of this, but AFAIK you could just do (manually) something like /usr/i386/bin and /usr/ppc/bin And then the client could map /usr/bin to either depending on it's architecture.