[ale] /usr/share symlink problems?

[Eric Z. Ayers]

As I explained to our local budding Linux convert, the only problem
I'd have with that is that /usr/share might not be updated correctly
in an OS update.  

David S. Jackson writes:
 > Things are filling up on my main box here, so I was going to
 > offload some directories off to another partition and symlink
 > them back to the root partition.  The candidates are:
 > 
 > /usr/share
 > /usr/doc
 > /usr/info
 > /usr/man
 > 
 > /usr/local is already on a different partition.
 > 
 > I notice that there are lots of consolefonts and so forth in
 > /usr/share.  Locale settings, terminfo stuff.  Pretty important.
 > Do you think it would be unwise to symlink this partition from,
 > say, /mnt/usr2/share to /usr/share?  What problems can you think
 > of that might arise?
 > 
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