Re: What's this /run directory doing on my system and where does it come from?

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On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 9:21 AM, Lennart Poettering  wrote:
> On Wed, 30.03.11 15:08, Ralf Corsepius  wrote:
>
>>
>> On 03/30/2011 02:30 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote:
>> > On Wed, 30.03.11 18:04, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> >
>>
>> > Also, can somebody point me to the place where the FHS would say "no
>> > other directories below / are allowed"? I can't find that. And hence
>> > this change is perfectly FHS compliant.
>>
>> It's in the preface of the root file system section:
>>
>> http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#THEROOTFILESYSTEM
>>
>> <cite>
>> Applications must never create or require special files or
>> subdirectories in the root directory. Other locations in the FHS
>> hierarchy provide more than enough flexibility for any package.
>> </cite>
>
> Well, we are not an "application", are we?
>

I think, for the first time in Fedora history, I agree with Lennart.

After reading the above reference, this does not seem like an FHS
violation. Even if it is, it is the FHS that needs to be updated.

Orcan
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