> But I don't think the FHS should be specifying the actual location of > the files at all. True, the FHS should not cause too much pain for the
Ok good we agree on this > The only thing that really matters is what pathnames applications can > count upon to work. Given that the rest of the world is moving to Right now every package you build for linux assumes /var/spool/mail. I dont actually care what the rest of the world is doing. From a rather brutal point of view _we_ are becoming the rest of the world. > /var/mail, I think it would be good for us to start a gradual migration > to /var/mail. The extra symlink doesn't cost anything, and gradually > moving applications over to use /var/mail really doesn't cost much > either. By the time we migrate to /var/mail and annoy alll the vendors - netscape, applix, zmail and the like the old style unix mail format will be dying. It seems to be pain for the sake of it. If all the Linux vendors already used /var/mail and you said "lets use /var/spool/mail" I'd be equally opposed.
