Le 02/07/2012 08:48, Alexander E. Patrakov a écrit : > 2012/7/2 Philipp Kern <pk...@debian.org>: >> Alexander, >> it is not sufficient on a Debian system to just branch off the root >> filesystem >> given that important state information of the package manager is stored in >> /var. > > Yes, this seems to be a valid objection. > > However [call me a heretic if you want] does this state information > really belong to /var? It is written to only when /usr is written to, > by the same package manager that modifies the root fs and /usr. Maybe > it's time to move it to /usr so that it is not intermixed with really > variable user data.
dpkg and apt are not the only one packages that use /var. Lots of webapp install a symlink farm. python-support also create symlink/compile bytecode in /var And I'm sure we can find lots of others. Regards, Vincent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4ff1598e.9030...@free.fr