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[Wojciech Puchar]

> Would it be stupid idea to have publicly available, mountable (nfs)
> partition, with full port tree(s)? I think it would be good for
> systems with low storage space. I know hd space is cheap, but I run
> over and over to this problem.

read only or read write?
public read write isn't smart.

> I don't know how easily it could be done, but some kind of session
> based temporary write permissions would be good too. To be able to
> make && make install directly from mounted partition.

man mount_unionfs


> I don't think very many people would need to have local personal copy
> of ports tree then.
>
> So, is this just stupid?

no.