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

[kragen@pobox.com (Kragen Sitaker)]

On Mon, 25 Jan 1999, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:
> If we must back out /var/mail (for no good technical reason that I can
> determine), then at the very least I think we should state that there
> that for all compliant distributions, /var/mail *MUST* be a valid way of
> reaching the spool directory (i.e., there should be a symlink there, or
> where the spool directory actually lives)

If you include this change, will using ~/Mailbox violate the FHS?  Does
it already?  Should it?  Should we require symlinks from
/var/mail/$USER to ~$USER/Mailbox?

Switching a single one-user system to ~/Mailbox is easy, btw.
Switching a single multi-user system to ~/Mailbox is likely to cause a
certain amount of pain.  Distributing applications to millions of
people, some of whom use one convention, and some of whom use another,
is surely asking for trouble.


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