Introducing /run

Posted Mar 31, 2011 8:19 UTC (Thu) by rleigh (guest, #14622)
In reply to: Introducing /run by roblucid
Parent article: Introducing /run

At least for the case of / and /usr, they really aren't different kinds of data, at least on a modern distribution with a package manager. On such a modern system, there are essentially two major types of file: those under the control of a package manager, and those which are not (system and user data). The / and /usr split really doesn't make a lot of sense when you get down to the details:

http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2011/01/msg00152.html

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Introducing /run

Posted Mar 31, 2011 16:46 UTC (Thu) by vonbrand (subscriber, #4458) [Link] (1 responses)

Great! Every file handled by the package manager goes under /pkg, everything else under /nopkg. Nice, orderly system with /pgg/emacs, /pkg/gcc, ... ;-)

Introducing /run

Posted May 4, 2011 21:29 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

You think you're joking:

nix@mutilate 125 /home/nix% ls -l /pkg/emacs/
total 12
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Apr 6 16:49 23.3-5568-1
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 May 2 22:55 24.1-104079
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 May 4 14:46 24.1-104105

nix@mutilate 126 /home/nix% ls -l /pkg/ncurses/
total 20
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Sep 11 2009 5.7-20090815-old
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Jan 16 14:30 5.7-20110108
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Jan 16 14:35 5.7-20110108-32
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Jan 16 14:31 5.7-20110108-wide
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Jan 16 14:39 5.7-20110108-wide-32

All installed via DESTDIR and symlinked into place by graft.