Michael Meskes writes: > Ian Jackson writes: > > The latest draft FHS, which they may well publish as it stands, makes > > the following changes with which I have very strong disagreements: > > * The mail spool, /var/spool/mail, is moved to /var/mail. > > * /var/lib is renamed to /var/state (yes, all of it). > > * /var/lib/games is moved to /var/games. > > I don't like either of these and IMO we shouldn't change. That depends on what we consider more important: technical beauty or compatibility with other systems. If the FHS is adopted by upstream maintainers then being non-standard will create unnecessary work for debian package maintainers. And this will probably invite bugs, which is bad, too.
> At least not in the near future. Yep. I think we should wait for the issue to settle down in the FHS-list and act according to its development then. Generally I think that in the long run being non-standard is worse than being standard even if the standard isn't 100% perfect. -Chris
