On 14/01/2013 18:14, Zac Medico wrote: > It might be a lot simpler to just go and patch all the ebuilds that > installed stuff in /var/run with a one-liner like this at the end of > src_install:
It's a good idea to do so to avoid the check coming from portage to happena nd waste time, but ... > Once all the ebuilds are fixed, emerge will automatically remove the > /var/run symlink, and it's history. That should not happen. Ever. Because if it did we'd be in deep shit. The fact that /var/run is a symlink is what saves us from having to convert everything to actually use /run, and instead we still refer to /var/run in most places _but_ we use checkpath for it. If /var/run symlink was killed, we'd end up with a ton of services creating a (now permanent) /var/run directory structure, with even more trouble. -- Diego Elio Pettenò — Flameeyes flamee...@flameeyes.eu — http://blog.flameeyes.eu/
