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Re:Ubuntu 11.10, Introduce new top-level directory /run by rmc on Saturday October 22, 2011 @12:32PM (#3143792)
Shit? What do you think is bad about the /run?
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Re:Ubuntu 11.10, Introduce new top-level directory /run by sherkund on Saturday October 22, 2011 @02:18PM (#3143991)
That it is an incremental fix for a terrible ad-hoc file-system design that has invaded almost all Linux distributions.

You still can't easily install 2 versions of a program in Debian. It's 2011.

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Re:Ubuntu 11.10, Introduce new top-level directory /run by jrockway on Saturday October 22, 2011 @04:45PM (#3144294) 

    ./configure --prefix=/some/unique/place
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Re:Ubuntu 11.10, Introduce new top-level directory /run by calpaterson on Saturday October 22, 2011 @06:56PM (#3144536)
His point is that dpkg is unable to support installation of multiple versions of a package. update-alternatives and having custom packaging (like with python2.6 and python2.7) solves some of this issue, but Gobolinux deals with it a lot better
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Re:Ubuntu 11.10, Introduce new top-level directory /run by jrockway on Sunday October 23, 2011 @04:12PM (#3147118)
My point is that it's very easy to do this, but that no real users of Debian want it enough to begin doing it.
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Re:Ubuntu 11.10, Introduce new top-level directory /run by calpaterson on Monday October 24, 2011 @12:38PM (#3150348)
"Real" users? What does that even mean?
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