Re: Resolutions to comments on LSB-FHS-TS_SPEC_V1.0
- To: gordon.m.tetlow@vanderbilt.edu (Gordon Tetlow)
- Cc: florian@suse.de, hpa@transmeta.com, tytso@mit.edu, quinlan@transmeta.com, ewt@redhat.com, fhs-discuss@ucsd.edu, ajosey@rdg.opengroup.org, lsb-test@linuxbase.org, lsb-spec@linuxbase.org, lsb-spec@lists.linuxbase.org, debian-devel@lists.debian.org
- Subject: Re: Resolutions to comments on LSB-FHS-TS_SPEC_V1.0
- From: Alan Cox <alan@cymru.net>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 17:20:17 +0000 (GMT)
- Message-id: <[🔎] 199901251720.RAA11006@snowcrash.cymru.net>
- In-reply-to: <[🔎] 36A74C1D.7B3AB1C8@vanderbilt.edu> from "Gordon Tetlow" at Jan 21, 99 09:47:41 am
> I thought the purpose of this project (at least the FHS) is to create a standard
> of what the filesystem should look like, not necessarily what it currently looks
> like. Just because `Everyone is doing it' (tm) doesn't mean it's right.
> Personally, I want Linux to be clean and elegant in its implementation, so if
> that means breaking from convention and putting mail in /var/mail, so be it. I
> for one don't know the answer. Whatever the answer is should be the right one,
> not just the one people are doing.
If all the vendors think /var/mail is stupid then its perhaps time for the
FHS to ask "ok why.. is there a problem, did we make a bad choice, or did
we simply fail to explain the reasons /var/mail is good"
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