Re: Policy for default mount points?

[Buddha Buck <bmbuck@zaphod.dhis.org>]

> On Thu, Jul 22, 1999 at 09:45:08PM -0400, Carl Mummert wrote:
> > So does that men I have to start using /var/state/dpkg/info somtime soon?
> 
> It is a bit risky process. In the next version of FHS, we should be moving,
> but nobody yet implemented a moving scheme... probably it can be done,
> through maintainer scripts (preinst etc).

Perhaps not...

I got the impression from the FHS list that they were going to back out 
of /var/state, at least for package managers... It seems that both 
Debian and Red Hat have a long history with /var/lib/{rpm,dpkg}, and 
do't seem likely to change, regardless of FHS.

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