On Wed, 2023-03-08 at 07:05 -0800, Mike Wright wrote:
Historically, "/run" was beneath "/var" but has been promoted to its own root level space. At least so far programs still using the historical location continue to run but are advised to change the caller to use /run instead. It's less a warning than an advisement.
So... my take on it would be that they're trying to put the notion into the heads of people working on the software, rather than trying to get end-users to change their systems?
I'd imagine if the average user went tweaking their system as advised, the next package update is probably going to undo it.