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Re: libc/639: Filesystem Hierarchy Standard compliance.
- To: Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>, libc-hacker@gnu.org
- Subject: Re: libc/639: Filesystem Hierarchy Standard compliance.
- From: Richard Henderson <rth@cygnus.com>
- Date: Tue, 2 Jun 1998 21:14:33 -0700
- References: <u8hg2ffz72.fsf@arthur.rhein-neckar.de> <u8ra1cqmi5.fsf@arthur.rhein-neckar.de> <6kotn1$i1q$1@defiant.cistron.nl>
- Reply-To: Richard Henderson <rth@cygnus.com>
On Sat, May 30, 1998 at 02:22:57PM +0200, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> I'm at LinuxExpo, getting the chance to discuss FHS with some of the
> distributions that are looking hard at FHS. The number one complaint
> so far (especially from RedHat) is about /var/spool/mail moving to
> /var/mail. I think I was too willing to move it in the first place.
Yes, the problem that Red Hat has is that there is no reasonable way
to upgrade a system currently using /var/spool/mail to use /var/mail
instead. Consider /var/spool/mail and /var being in different
partitions.
>From this perspective I can see why they are rather annoyed.
r~