I have /usr mounted read-only and I always forget to -oremount,rw before installing packages. The package installer seems to handle that gracefully, there's been no harm so far, but once I've been up to five or six times that this occurred to me I decided that stupid users like me will never remember.
I'm sure people who mount /usr read-write will not understand what I'm talking about whereas people who mount /usr as ro will feel familiar ;) Probably the debian package handling utilities should not get into the business of remounting file systems, but a little warning to the people without braincells and not starting installation activities would be really really nice. Like: `dpkg: please mount /usr read-only for installation' Are there other directories besides /usr or /usr/share that would be candidates? I don't know. Claus -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Intel Corporation SC12-205 ... not speaking phone +1-408-765-6808 2200 Mission College Blvd. for Intel fax +1-408-765-9322 Santa Clara, CA 95052-8119
