On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 10:27:28AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.12.28.0350 +0100]: > > Until a symlink is provided for backward compatibility (/media/cdrom -> > > /cdrom), this would break working systems. > > ... this does not prevent you from changing to use /media/cdrom. > I purposely removed the /cdrom symlink to find problematic packages > which still use it.
There are a large number of installed systems which use /cdrom in /etc/fstab. Changing apt-cdrom's default mount point to /media/cdrom would break apt-cdrom on those systems, unless there is some process to convert them on upgrade. -- - mdz
