> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>>On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 05:46:20AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>>
>>>>>Martin Lefebvre wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>ya... well... if Microsoft does it that way, it must be the right
>>>>
>>>>way, no?
>>>>
>>>>>Yes, it must be :). But KDE and Gnome aren't better. They try to
>>>>
>>>>build something like "My Computer" and other things known from $M --
>>>> this sucks.
>>>>
>>>>>Matthias-Christian
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>I wish someone with half a brain could tell me what was wrong with
>>>> /mnt ?
>>>
>>>I think it's really very simple.
>>>
>>>/mnt/ does what it has been doing since day 1.
>>>/media/ handles dynamically added new devices.
>>>
>>>Aren't you glad that /mnt/ isn't infested by suprises? I am.
>>>
>>>--
>>>vk
>>
>>
>> Nope. Glad is not a word I would use to describe the inconvenience of
>> adding a new level of silliness.
>>
>> Very best regards;
>>
>> Bob Finch
>>
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> In someways I guess it does make sense but then again it seems like
> simplification for the sake of simplification.  However, when it comes
> to a nice clean space for DEs and apps to mount removeable media in line
>  with a recognised standard then that does make much more sense.
>
> Phil

The "it" as you have used it is not at all clear to me. But for the sake
of clarity:

"I" feel the /mnt standard was sufficient by itself.

"I" also believe that adding a new hierarchy "becomes" a standard given
(sufficient) time, even if it makes little to no sense to add more
complexity with having two places for "mounts".

Also given enough time, the "new" standard makes plenty of sense, in as
much as it is now a standard and folks will get use to looking in two
places. (This is a sad thing to my mind.)

That is why it all seems silly to me, and I am NOT glad about it...

Of course, YMMV.


Very best regards;

Bob Finch




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