Re: Netscape install (applies generically)

[Daniel Rinehart <danielr@ccs.neu.edu>]

> I'd rather do (a) and avoid (c). 
> But I want to know if I'm fighting a trend.

	At our site we opt for a centralized Netscape install mounted via
NFS. This however piggy backs on our overall setup of having the majority
of our binaries mounted via NFS. Having it mounted via NFS also solves the
issue of "does this machine have all of the latest versions", very handy
when security issues like the recent NS JVM pop up.

> The plug-in directory becomes another item in my LD_LIBRARY_PATH 
> either way.

	As for the LD_LIBRARY_PATH we use a custom wrapper script that
mucks with the environment as needed to make Netscape happy without having
to modify user's individual environments. This has the added advantage of
popping up warnings to encourage people to use our local proxy service,
fixing font and classpath issues, and other tricks to get supported
plug-ins working.

-- Daniel R. <danielr@ccs.neu.edu> [http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/danielr/]