On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 08:45:21AM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > On 13/03/20 08:34, Michael Tokarev wrote: > >> The use of /var/run makes me a little uneasy. I guess it's related to > >> wanting to uninstall the old package so the .so in their original > >> location cannot be used (even if they had a versioned path)? > > > > BTW, this is /run nowadays, not /var/run, as far as I can see. > > /var/run is still symlinked to /run. QEMU generally uses /var/run, > though we could consider switching sooner or later.
Only Linux commonly uses /run, others still use /var/run. We really only need a "configure --rundir=/run" arg to override the default, in the same way distros pick /etc and /var, instead of /usr/etc and /usr/var. Regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :|