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Re: libc/639: Filesystem Hierarchy Standard compliance.
In article <u8ra1cqmi5.fsf@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>,
Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de> wrote:
>As /var/mail will be used by Debian 2.1 (thanks Miquel) and nobody
>complained I propose the appended patch. Please note that
>sysdeps/generic/paths.h already uses /var/mail.
Aaargh! I just read the following message from Daniel Quinlan:
[Note that even though it was posted to debian-policy, this isn't really
just "debian-policy", Daniel is also involved in the FHS and that's what
it's about]
From: quinlan@pathname.com (Daniel Quinlan)
Subject: /var/mail back to /var/spool/mail
Date: 30 May 1998 04:27:09 +0200
Organization: Debian Policy List
Message-ID: <m0yfbM3-00004YC@proton>
Reply-To: quinlan@pathname.com
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.
Anyway, given the current circumstances and who is and isn't going to
be following FHS, changing it back to /var/spool/mail seems reasonable
and possible.
Would anyone object to changing it back? If we did, I'd like to put
it into FHS 2.1 to disseminate the fix ASAP. I realize it will be an
inconvenience at best to distributions already working on FHS. (At
least nobody has released an FHS-compliant distribution so far.)
- Dan
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