Thanks for the explanation

Posted Mar 30, 2011 22:36 UTC (Wed) by david.a.wheeler (subscriber, #72896)
Parent article: Introducing /run

I expected to be strongly against this proposed "/run", and instead, I find myself persuaded. Lennart Poettering: thanks for posting *why* this is being proposed. *AND* for coordinating with other distro's, since most of us write code to work on many platform.

Changing old specs is just fine, as long as there's a reason for it. I hope that FHS adds this (and at least something about libexec).

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Thanks for the explanation

Posted Mar 30, 2011 23:41 UTC (Wed) by roblucid (guest, #48964) [Link] (1 responses)

Let's just hope the desktop developers understand it, they didn't seem to grok /tmp & /var/tmp in past.

Thanks for the explanation

Posted Mar 31, 2011 21:42 UTC (Thu) by jond (subscriber, #37669) [Link]

Really, all they need to grok is $TMPDIR, and/or possible $XDG_CACHE_HOME.

Thanks for the explanation

Posted Mar 31, 2011 11:38 UTC (Thu) by Seegras (guest, #20463) [Link] (3 responses)

Well, there seems to be a case for /run. But what exactly is the case for libexec?

As far as I can see libexec serves mostly to annoy sysadmins so they have to search for "updatedb" there... ;) Or am I wrong?

Thanks for the explanation

Posted Mar 31, 2011 12:26 UTC (Thu) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link] (2 responses)

Refer to

http://bugs.freestandards.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101

Thanks for the explanation

Posted Apr 21, 2011 13:23 UTC (Thu) by Seegras (guest, #20463) [Link] (1 responses)

"As such in a simplified view libexecdir contents are more like bindir contents only that they don't appear in the user's path."

That is not a case for libexec. That is a case for NOT having any libexec whatsoever.

Thanks for the explanation

Posted Apr 21, 2011 13:40 UTC (Thu) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]

You asked for a rationale and one has been provided. If you disagree, provide a alternative solution instead of naysaying. This is where FHS as a maintained standard would be useful. Unfortunately this isn't the case now.