Matthew Snelham wrote: > >> If you want that level of flexability then simply symlink /lib/rcscripts >> to /var/rcscripts or where-ever you like. > > But then baselayout is still 'behaving badly' by sttempting to store > dynamic state information in /lib. Something it has not done before, to > the best of my knowledge (with the exception of /dev state tarballs, which > are generally acceptable, since they don't change while the system is up). > > UNIX filesystem usage patterns are older than a good chunk of gentoo devs, > so in the name of defaulting to expected behaviour, I think /lib should be > avoided.
+1 This is a very good point, why are we breaking from accepted UNIX standards uselessly? Generally, a live system should never need to write to /lib, but a writable /var is pretty much standard. This new behavior breaks standards, if /var is on a separate filesystem, maybe we can use a subdir in /tmp for the init stuff until we get /var up, then move it over. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
