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Bug#268812: xfs: can /tmp/.font-unix be moved to /var/run/.font-unix?



On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 06:27:49PM +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 07:31:56AM -0700, Daniel Stone wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 01:38:41PM +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> > > pleeease?
> > > 
> > > it'd be a lot cleaner.
> > > 
> > > and probably FHS compliant.
> > > 
> > > and cause a lot less hassle for selinux.
> > 
> > Yes, and /tmp/.ICE-unix and /tmp/.X11-unix can do this too; the problem
> > is older apps which have static libX11 or their own transport
> > implementations, which won't see the changed directories, and things
> > will then go awry.  That said, it needs to be done -- probably
> > post-sarge, I'd imagine, and maybe with the move to the modular tree
> > when we start re-evaluating many things which we've long taken for
> > granted.
>  
>  fantastic.

I don't think anyone really objects to this -- it's just a matter of making
the change at the right time.

(cd /usr; ln -s . X11R6) on the other hand...

;-)

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