libc/639: Filesystem Hierarchy Standard compliance.

[Richard Henderson]

On Sat, May 30, 1998 at 02:22:57PM +0200, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
>   I'm at LinuxExpo, getting the chance to discuss FHS with some of the
>   distributions that are looking hard at FHS.  The number one complaint
>   so far (especially from RedHat) is about /var/spool/mail moving to
>   /var/mail.  I think I was too willing to move it in the first place.

Yes, the problem that Red Hat has is that there is no reasonable way
to upgrade a system currently using /var/spool/mail to use /var/mail
instead.  Consider /var/spool/mail and /var being in different 
partitions.

>From this perspective I can see why they are rather annoyed.


r~