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

[Daniel J Walsh]

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On 03/30/2011 04:59 PM, Chris Adams wrote:
> Once upon a time, Michał Piotrowski <mkkp4x4 at gmail.com> said:
>> 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.
> 
> Please stop calling FHS obsolete, at least as long as the Fedora
> packaging guidelines say it should be followed.
> 
> I think the problem here is how this was done, not as much what was
> done.  Would it have been so much trouble to have discussed this in
> advance?  The FHS allows dsitros to add additional top-level
> directories, but this was done by developers of a package, without any
> distro discussion.  We're well past F15 Alpha and almost to Beta; IMHO a
> change like this should have been made sooner (or wait until next
> release).  There may be things that the systemd developers didn't think
> about (what about SELinux policy for example; I haven't seen that
> mentioned).
> 
We are scrambling to get the policies updated, but it would have been
nice to have more time.
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