I've been thinking of something along these lines, too: I'm trying to install packages on a machine, but doc & man stuff on a separate machine as a server. It isn't working well so far :)
I've had reasonable luck linking /usr/doc and /usr/man pages to the nfs host, but the predictable bad things happen when i then try to install packages--all kinds of error messages. Should i be setting the permissions for /usr/doc & man to 777? Also, there are some programs that i want to leave on the server--man, info, gcc and the like for those that don't have room for it locally, etc. I just don't quite understand the proper configuration for these, and how /bin/local interacts, etc. can someone straighten me out? (yes, i know that the solution is big disks, but this is to convert old machines that the department woudl otherwise lose. (and yes, we're blessed :) our old machines are 486/33's . . . I'm not sure there are any 386's left in front line use here . . .) (but they only have 80mb drives, though they'll frequently get a second . . .)
