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From: Luca Barbato <lu_zero@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: use of the /run directory
Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 08:58:53
Message-Id: 4DD62D24.4030306@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] rfc: use of the /run directory by William Hubbs
1 On 5/17/11 6:57 PM, William Hubbs wrote:
2 > All,
3 >
4 > I think we should support the /run directory [1] [2]. The issue is
5 > that there are at least two packages, udev and dracut, in gentoo, which
6 > support the use of this directory. Support for it is being worked on in
7 > openrc, and systemd will use it once it comes into the tree.
8
9 > I, as well as several others, believe we should proactively create this
10 > directory in a new release of baselayout, so that we will avoid bugs in
11 > the future when packages start requiring it.
12
13 /run seems yet another directory cluttering the hierarchy to solve a
14 fringe issue, still I don't disagree it might be useful and is sort of
15 cleaner than /var/run.
16
17 That shouldn't be read as endorsing the peculiar and conceptually broken
18 init replacement called systemd.
19
20 lu

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Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: use of the /run directory Mike Pagano <mpagano@g.o>