On Wed, Apr 14, 1999 at 04:25:10PM +0300, Fabrizio Polacco wrote: > > /mnt is for temporary mounts; I do not consider /cdrom to be a temporary > > mount, myself. IMHO, /mnt/* is an ugly Red Hatism. > > /mnt is *only* for temporary mounts, and should be left into local sysadm > domain, as it is for /usr/local, it has already been said. > > I agree that populating / with "random" mountpoints (what for who has > two CD drivers, or two floppyes, and maybe a zip/jazz?) is ugly. > > I would prefere to use /var/mnt/* for this purpose. > It mimics the distinction between /tmp and /var/tmp , and /var is > warranteed to be local and writable.
I like this. I'm not going to necessarily consider this something that is going to be done on a Debian-wide scale (though I think it should be personally), but I'm about to do it on MY system. Thank you for the suggestion. (and here's to the hope, be it perhaps small, that this suggestion will become the default.. Create symlinks in / to them if you want--I don't care. => This is a Good Thing and we should seriously consider doing it) -- Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian GNU/Linux developer PGP: E8D68481E3A8BB77 8EE22996C9445FBE The Source Comes First! ------------------------------------------------------------------------- "my biggest problem with RH (and especially RH contrib packages) is that they DON'T have anything like our policy. That's one of the main reasons why their packages are so crappy and broken. Debian has the teamwork side of building a distribution down to a fine art."
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