Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (1578 mails)

["Tim Edwards" <liststuff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday, November 21, 2011 3:38 PM, "Andreas Jaeger" <aj@xxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> The change to make /var/run as tmpfs was discussed on the packaging 
> mailing list:
> http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-packaging/2010-05/msg00018.html
>
> I don't remember that /run was mentioned separately in a similiar way 
> but this was part of the introduction of systemd that was discussed 
> several times.
>
> Please keep in mind that systemd is also an effort to bring the 
> distributions together in some more areas to make packaging easier,

Exactly, where's the problem with this? There are some very good reasons
why this /run is better than what it replaces
(http://lwn.net/Articles/436012/). Opensuse would be a much worse
distribution if it just kept doing things the way they've been done for
years just because not everyone can agree on every change.

Maybe that statement of purpose (or whatever it was) for Opensuse should
be updated with something like:
"Things change, even low-level system components. We'll try to make
these changes as smooth as possible and only do them when they're
beneficial overall, but if you want a Linux distribution that looks like
one from 1999 you'd be better off using Slackware" :)

Tim
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