Bug#268812: xfs: can /tmp/.font-unix be moved to /var/run/.font-unix?

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 07:31:56AM -0700, Daniel Stone wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 01:38:41PM +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> > pleeease?
> > 
> > it'd be a lot cleaner.
> > 
> > and probably FHS compliant.
> > 
> > and cause a lot less hassle for selinux.
> 
> Yes, and /tmp/.ICE-unix and /tmp/.X11-unix can do this too; the problem
> is older apps which have static libX11 or their own transport
> implementations, which won't see the changed directories, and things
> will then go awry.  That said, it needs to be done -- probably
> post-sarge, I'd imagine, and maybe with the move to the modular tree
> when we start re-evaluating many things which we've long taken for
> granted.
 
 fantastic.