libc/639: Filesystem Hierarchy Standard compliance.

Thomas Bushnell, n/BSG tb@mit.edu
Wed Jun 3 08:38:00 GMT 1998


   Date: Tue, 2 Jun 1998 21:14:33 -0700
   From: Richard Henderson <rth@cygnus.com>

   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.

It's Just Not Possible to have all updates be as automatic as RedHat,
Debian, and I would like.  It's Just Not Possible.

Sometimes more careful work, by the actual user, has to be done.  I
certainly hope that the distribution makers haven't lied to their
customers and promised that they'd never need to do something
themselves, but it does happen.

Thomas




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