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

["Canek Peláez Valdés" <caneko@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 1:35 AM, Michael Schreckenbauer <grimlog@gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi Canek,

Hi Michael.

> 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.

So?

> Stop spreading this misinformation, please.

Which one? That /var is not going into /? It's not disinformation, it
is th true. If not, please be so kind of showin one single developer
reference that says so. One. Single. One.

Email, blog post, wiki, you choose it. But one single one.

Otherwise, stop speculating about an imaginary future, and stop
spreading disinformation and FUD.

Regards.
-- 
Canek Peláez Valdés
Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México