On 13 Apr 1999, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > J.H.M. Dassen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I don't think so. Please keep them, or consider moving them under /mnt. > >Personally, I'd think it would be a good idea to have a /zip in addition to > >/floppy. > > I hate cluttered up root directories. The first thing I do is a > rmdir /floppy /initrd; rm /vmlinux and all that stuff since 95% > of the machines I use don't NEED it.
Well, for the convenience of the user who really dislike them, I suppose they should have to be removed, then. If base-files do not contain these directories, you can create them and base-files would respect them without removing them. The converse is not true: If base-files contains these directories, you can remove them but if you upgrade base-files, they will be created again. > I do like your first suggestion though: > > /mnt/floppy > /mnt/floppy2 > /mnt/cdrom > /mnt/cdrom2 > /mnt/dos/a > /mnt/dos/b > /mnt/dos/c > /mnt/zip > > .... ad infinitum Mmm, I dislike this very much... I think there is a possible compromise here: Would be ok for you that /cdrom and /floppy are only created on the initial install? i.e. The same way /root/.profile and /root/.bashrc are currently handled. [ See base-files.postinst ]. Thanks. -- "b474f19d927b3ca5d8b4298876237a59" (a truly random sig)
