[ moving to -policy again, hope you don't mind ]. On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Jonathan P Tomer wrote:
> > Well personally I really disklike to have mountpoints under /mnt.. > > so, do we have the next battle after /var/spool/mail versus /var/mail ? > > well, here's an option: make the common mount points a package of their own, > which can be installed or deinstalled at the sysadmin's option. make it > priority: std, and consist of no files but a preinst script and/or binary > that detects any mountables you have and adds the fstab entries and > mountpoints, with your choice of name and location. this oughtn't be too > hard; if there's no serious opposition i shall post some code to the list or > send it to santiago, he being the base-files maintainer. > > the package description should clearly say "this may make your system > violate the fhs" and when the script is run it should give you some pointers > on what to do to make it fhs-compliant (ie put all the mountpoints in /mnt > or some similar place). I don't think we need a separate package for /cdrom and /floppy, and I don't like at all the idea of asking the user about it (see the thread in debian-qa about this, "Debian bothers the user with as many questions as it can", started by Joey, I fully agree with him). I think a little difference between FHS and Debian policy should be allowed. The point is: Which is the best way to do it? Would a file /usr/doc/base-files/README.FHS be appropriate for this? Thanks. -- "13597a1d9790e12289040c57edbea443" (a truly random sig)
