IanJ> What I'm thinking of doing is providing a generic mechanism for IanJ> package X to say "install /foo/bar as /spong/wibble instead".
The public discussion is completely removed from my initial question about where to put backup software. Private mail was in support of /bin and /sbin. I am going to put afio and tob in the root partition. There are three reason for doing so: (a) both programs are very small (20 kb and 45 kb respectively), (b) both are obtional (if you don't want them on /, don't install them), (c) the fsstnd recommends it. -- Dirk Eddelb|ttel http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/~edd
