This one time, at band camp, Thomas Hood wrote: >On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 18:56, Steve Langasek wrote: >> The FHS is about more than just providing a system that technically >> allows you to mount different filesystems as needed. There are also >> aesthetic concerns in the heirarchy (in the broad sense of creating a >> system which follows a set of simple principles), and I believe /etc/run >> violates that aesthetic whereas /run does not. > >OK, but some people find /run more objectionable than /etc/run >because it adds a new root directory. I doubt that we will be >able to reach an agreement about which of the alternatives >is most beautiful. > >If /etc/run is no less damaging to the FHS aesthetic than /run >then the decision between the two has to be made on the basis >of technical advantages, and there /run has a slight edge.
I find /etc/run more objectionable because it isn't actually moving the state files out of /etc, which is what the whole point of the excercise is, IMHO. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.debian.org/~jaq
