>http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=183370
My understanding is that the whole purpose of sharedstatedir is to be usable across machines. For example, Emacs lock files are sharable across NFS, and this is extremely useful. (Emacs is the only program I know of that uses sharedstatedir -- are there others? --, and these days it's only used as a backup if the file's own directory is not writable, but still.) Of course I understand that at many sites and distributions /usr is read-only, and in those cases sharedstatedir should, naturally, be configured as somewhere else in those cases -- hopefully somewhere that is shared and writable across machines. If there is no such place, then I suppose a local /var/something is the likely choice. Perhaps I missed some of the discussion on this, but I did not see any alternative being proposed. Regards, Karl
