2 iPhoto Libraries, one referenced photo source

I know people have been looking for a safe way (a method that will not corrupt the iPhoto library database) to share libraries for a long time. It appears that until Apple decides to make changes to allow this to happen, its not possible to do it without risking database corruption.
But is is possible to share a dataset of referenced photos (where the original photos are not stored in iPhoto's library, just links to the photos that are stored elsewhere) using two libraries? In other words, two libraries pointing to the same dataset of original photos?
I know this would mean that photo edits made using one library would not be available in the other. But this approach would allow multiple members of the family to share the same set of family photos, and have their own libraries, with separate albums, edits, etc.
I'd appreciate hearing thoughts about this (or better yet, if someone has actually done it!).
Cheers,
Bill

Possible - of course it is
but it is a really bad idea - at this time iPhoto simply does not handle referenced libraries well
As you point out this method would only share the originals and not of the edites, metadata changes, projects, etc
And it means a complicated time and consuming import scheme of different people adding originals to the shared photos library and then notifying all others of what they had done and each and every user importing all of those photos to their library - which means that most likely everyone whould have a different set of photos within a srt time
But the biggest issue if that the path can n=ever change (unless you hack the database of each iPhoto library that is referencing the photos) so upgrading hardware, computers or replacing defective devices becomes much more difficult
LN

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