[aklug] Re: multiple distros coordinate to establish /run directory

On 03/30/2011 08:16 PM, Royce Williams wrote:
> http://lwn.net/Articles/436012/
>
> Quoting:
>
> In the past weeks key people from the Debian, Suse, Ubuntu and Fedora
> camps (and others, too) discussed the whole issue forth and back, to
> find a solution to stop the misuse of /dev before it becomes even more
> widespread. Various solutions have been suggested, but in the end it all
> boiled down to the fact that /var/run does not belong beneath /var and
> what we really want is a top-level directory /run, and that that is the
> only really clean solution. The only reason why nobody dared to actually
> implement such a directory was unwillingness to deal with the political
> backlash, especially messy discussions on mailing lists like this one.
>
> Understanding this, we came to the conclusion that we should rather
> implement what everybody thinks is the right technical solution, instead
> of evading the political backlash for it. And so we implemented this.
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"Political backlash"? From whom?

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