Re: Resolutions to comments on LSB-FHS-TS_SPEC_V1.0

[Remco Blaakmeer <remco-blaakmeer@quicknet.nl>]

On Tue, 26 Jan 1999, Daniel Quinlan wrote:

> This is not quite the case.  FHS 2.0, like previous versions, aims for
> somewhere between best practice and the common (Linux) practice.
> Mostly Linux, actually, because Linux generally has a much cleaner
> filesystem hierarchy layout.

This being the case, why does FHS 2.0 specify /var/mail while most (all?) 
Linux distributions are currently using /var/spool/mail (which makes
/var/spool/mail the 'common practice')? Is /var/mail really so much
better?

Remco