Re: [gentoo-user] Apologize to everyone for my nonprofessional

[Michael Schreckenbauer <grimlog@gmx.de>]

Hi Canek,

On Saturday, 15. October 2011 00:50:22 Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 12:34 AM, Canek Peláez Valdés <caneko@gmail.com> 
wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 11:56 PM, Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Pandu Poluan wrote:
> >> 
> >> On Oct 15, 2011 5:49 AM, "Dale" <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> Neil Bothwick wrote:
> >>>> On Fri, 14 Oct 2011 11:15:24 -0500, Dale wrote:
> >>>>> A'right now.  I'm going to start on hal and /usr being on /
> >>>>> again.  :-P>>>> 
> >>>> Jeez, 43 years on and you're still going on about it...
> >>> 
> >>> Dang, I was only a year old when hal came out?  That just doubled my
> >>> age. It's closer to what I feel like tho.
> >>> 
> >>> I'm still not happy with /usr being required tho.  That is still
> >>> standing on a bad nerve.  Don't worry tho, I got plenty of those
> >>> bad nerves.  :-P>> 
> >> Do you know that there's a plan to move /var/run to / also? ;-)
> >> 
> >> Rgds,
> >> 
> >> 
> >> Now someone on here swears up and down that /var isn't going to be
> >> required on /.
> > 
> > /var != /var/run
> > /var != /var/lock
> > 
> > /var/run is going in /run, but /var/run (by definition) only contains
> > things like PID files and runtime sockets. In the same vein, /var/lock
> > also is going into /run/lock. I have acknowledged this from the very
> > beginning, and I have been pointing out that implying that because
> > those two (really small and bounded) directories of /var are going
> > into /run and /run/lock, it doesn't mean that the whole /var will go
> > into /. That is disinformation.
> 
> I finally found the link (got confused by gmane interface):
> 
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/246892
> 
> Quoting myself (from more than one month ago):
> 
> "Saying that proposing /run and /lock to be available at boot time
> means that in the future a separated /var partition could be not
> supported is, in my book, disinformation. /var/run and /var/lock (by
> definition) are almost empty (in space). /var/lib usually stores whole
> databases. The difference is important and relevant."

and you still did not look into /var/lib to see, what is actually in there?
My systems has directories alsa, bluetooth, hp and many more there that are 
not databases at all.
Stop spreading this misinformation, please.

> Regards.

Best,
Michael