Bug#42052: PROPOSAL] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail

[Ian Jackson <ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk>]

On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Joseph Carter wrote:
> To do this I suggest we ammend policy first by replacing all existing
> instances of /var/spool/mail with /var/mail and then changing the second
> paragraph of section 5.6 which currently reads

I object to this proposed change on the following grounds:

There are no reasons for us to change.  The FHS made a gratuitous
change in this area.  If someone wants to install software that really
does require /var/mail to exist they can make the symlink themselves.

There are reasons for us not to change: it is hard to do right, as the
discussion has shown, and if we get it wrong we risk making people's
mail systems fall over or even losing mail.

Ian.