What's this /run directory doing on my system and where does it come from?

[Michał Piotrowski]

W dniu 30 marca 2011 22:30 użytkownik drago01 <drago01 at gmail.com> napisał:
> 2011/3/30 Michał Piotrowski <mkkp4x4 at gmail.com>:
>> 2011/3/30 Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com>:
>>> On Wed, 2011-03-30 at 09:35 -0500, Adam Miller wrote:
>>>
>>>> Again, I'm not against that this is being done, but I would like to see
>>>> everyone equally follow suit on the way things are traditionally done
>>>> in Fedora land.
>>>
>>> Well, up to a point, Lord Copper. We have a features process with lots
>>> of bureaucracy and FESCo involvement and so on. What we don't have is
>>> any clear _enforcement_ of that process; there's no workable system that
>>> evaluates changes and requires sufficiently significant changes to be
>>> submitted as features. It's perfectly possible, and has been done lots
>>> of times, to simply go ahead and commit significant changes that _could_
>>> have been 'features', not submit them as features, and happily bypass
>>> the entire 'feature' process with all its bureaucracy. /run would
>>> certainly not be close to being the first time this has happened.
>>
>> Please do not try to kill evolution through the bureaucracy. Lennart
>> fixed a long standing issue here and he did it in such a way that tree
>> other major distributions accepted his solution. He also fixed a long
>> standing issues with Linux init system. This is not a feature - this
>> is evolution.
>
> Well we are on f-d-l and this is a change ... we all know what this
> evil combination causes ;)
>

First, people are wondering if this change is compatible with some
obsolete specification, next people are wondering if this change is
compatible with distribution feature process. I repeat again, this is
not a feature this is evolution. Lennart uses a big hammer here, but
from a technical POV these changes makes sense.

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Best regards,
Michal

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