Shit? What do you think is bad about the /run?

sherkund · on Oct 22, 2011

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.

jrockway · on Oct 22, 2011

    ./configure --prefix=/some/unique/place

calpaterson · on Oct 22, 2011

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

jrockway · on Oct 23, 2011

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.

calpaterson · on Oct 24, 2011

"Real" users? What does that even mean?