Re: [dev] /run coming to a linux distribution near you

2011-03-30 Thread pancake
It's ok for me. At the end we are all going to see that /run crap soon or late. It was good imho to know the reasons. On 30/03/2011, at 17:54, Nick wrote: > On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 05:36:44PM +0200, c...@wzff.de wrote: >> In any case, I don't understand why this is discussed on this mailing lis

[dev] MODKEY

2011-03-30 Thread KIMURA Masaru
Hi, Usually I use wmii on gentoo/ppc. Recently I was trying to set up Cygwin/X via XDMCP and I noticed that Mod1 and Mod4 were trapped by Windows. What do you think about MODKEY?

Re: [dev] /run coming to a linux distribution near you

2011-03-30 Thread Justin Pogue
> any news on its development? > > *curious* seconded

Re: [dev] /run coming to a linux distribution near you

2011-03-30 Thread Jens Staal
2011/3/30 Anselm R Garbe : > Personally I don't care at all what RH/F is doing, or what FHS is saying. > > In sta.li I tend to do what I think is a sensible approach, ignoring > all those "standards". > > BR, > -Anselm any news on its development? *curious*

Re: [dev] /run coming to a linux distribution near you

2011-03-30 Thread Nick
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 05:36:44PM +0200, c...@wzff.de wrote: > In any case, I don't understand why this is discussed on this mailing list. > This has absolutely nothing to do with any suckless software. Please take your > criticism to other mailing lists, where people are in a position to change >

Re: [dev] /run coming to a linux distribution near you

2011-03-30 Thread Anselm R Garbe
Personally I don't care at all what RH/F is doing, or what FHS is saying. In sta.li I tend to do what I think is a sensible approach, ignoring all those "standards". BR, -Anselm

Re: [dev] /run coming to a linux distribution near you

2011-03-30 Thread crap
I agree with Poettering in exactly one point: /dev/.xxx is *bad*. I'm not saying /run is a clean solution, but /dev/.xxx is *wrong*. It might be OK for udev, because udev is responsible for populating /dev, but it's highly mysterious to me why they started cramming the other stuff in there, like fo

Re: [dev] @bleidl, 26/03/11 19:41

2011-03-30 Thread Anselm R Garbe
Guys, everything sucks. It's a matter of something sucks less ;) Anyway, let's stop this nonsense here. Best regards, Anselm

Re: [dev] @bleidl, 26/03/11 19:41

2011-03-30 Thread mjm
> On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 9:57 AM, wrote: >> Your opinions are destructive. > > that sentence is in the same class as "colorless green ideas sleep > furiously" > > > ...but it doesn't change the fact that Arch sucks. > > -- > # Kurt H Maier > mediocre mental capacity and understanding the Englis

Re: [dev] /run coming to a linux distribution near you

2011-03-30 Thread Jacob Todd
Plan 9 doesn't have /var. Logs are kept in /sys/log, www crap in /usr/web, mail in /mail, and everything else seems to have been overcome.

Re: [dev] /run coming to a linux distribution near you

2011-03-30 Thread Kurt H Maier
Plan 9 is not unix. If your init needs to keep state just to boot, your init sucks. -- # Kurt H Maier

Re: [dev] @bleidl, 26/03/11 19:41

2011-03-30 Thread Kurt H Maier
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 9:57 AM, wrote: > Your opinions are destructive. that sentence is in the same class as "colorless green ideas sleep furiously" ...but it doesn't change the fact that Arch sucks. -- # Kurt H Maier

[dev] /run coming to a linux distribution near you

2011-03-30 Thread Nick
https://lwn.net/Articles/436012/?format=printable Lennart Poettering is planning to introduce a new toplevel directory, /run, moving /var/run to it, and /var/lock to /run/lock His reasons mostly seem sensible; as /var/run may not be available early in the boot process, people have been doing ghas

Re: [dev] @bleidl, 26/03/11 19:41

2011-03-30 Thread Jacob Todd
> Your opinions are destructive. > It's creative destruction.

Re: [dev] @bleidl, 26/03/11 19:41

2011-03-30 Thread mjm
> On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 1:26 PM, Jacob Todd wrote: >> Arch sucks. >> >> /troll > > s/oll/uth/ > > -- > # Kurt H Maier > Your opinions are destructive.

Re: [dev] @bleidl, 26/03/11 19:41

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