Re: Are /cdrom and /floppy really forbidden by policy?
[ moving to -policy again, hope you don't mind ].
On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Jonathan P Tomer wrote:
> > Well personally I really disklike to have mountpoints under /mnt..
> > so, do we have the next battle after /var/spool/mail versus /var/mail ?
>
> well, here's an option: make the common mount points a package of their own,
> which can be installed or deinstalled at the sysadmin's option. make it
> priority: std, and consist of no files but a preinst script and/or binary
> that detects any mountables you have and adds the fstab entries and
> mountpoints, with your choice of name and location. this oughtn't be too
> hard; if there's no serious opposition i shall post some code to the list or
> send it to santiago, he being the base-files maintainer.
>
> the package description should clearly say "this may make your system
> violate the fhs" and when the script is run it should give you some pointers
> on what to do to make it fhs-compliant (ie put all the mountpoints in /mnt
> or some similar place).
I don't think we need a separate package for /cdrom and /floppy, and I
don't like at all the idea of asking the user about it (see the thread
in debian-qa about this, "Debian bothers the user with as many questions
as it can", started by Joey, I fully agree with him).
I think a little difference between FHS and Debian policy should be
allowed. The point is: Which is the best way to do it?
Would a file /usr/doc/base-files/README.FHS be appropriate for this?
Thanks.
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