Hi, On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 01:37:42AM +1100, Glenn McGrath wrote: > On Mon, 10 Mar 2003 14:45:49 +0100 > Peter Palfrader <weasel@debian.org> wrote: > > > /var is not necessarily mounted at that stage. This has had flamewars > > of its own, search the archives. > > > > Debian is technically excellent but socially inept. > > We cant agree which is the best technical solution, so we dont implement > any solution at all. The whole chicken-and-egg problem of ifup/down requiring a writable directory and /var requiring a functioning network is currently solved "adequately" by using /etc; no network required, and in 95 % of the cases early writable. The proper solution would of course be to make network initialization (at least for root- and/or var-on-NFS purposes) independent of a writable filesystem. This has already been suggested, IIRC. So we have an "adequate" solution implemented and a better one that's being discussed. That's how it always should be. I don't see any problem? ;-) Cheers, Emile. -- E-Advies / Emile van Bergen | emile@e-advies.nl tel. +31 (0)70 3906153 | http://www.e-advies.nl
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