Actually, Alan Cox sums up the problem better than I did... ;)

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Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 00:37:41 +0000 (GMT)
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Subject: Re: Resolutions to comments on LSB-FHS-TS_SPEC_V1.0
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> 1. Interoperability with other systems.

10+ million Linux boxes use /var/spool/mail. Its also a spurious claim. All
existing tools assume linux uses /var/spool/mail. Other systems even sharing
via NFS dont get problems with this /var/spool usage

> 2. Disk space management.

We've proved between us that both views are held here. This therefore is a
rather spurious claim. A (maybe) symlink called /var/spool/mail that points 
somewhere arbitary is all that is needed for this issue. The FHS need
say nothing else

Your arguments don't IMHO hold water, nor in fact anything else


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