Re: Future: fhs 2.3 compliance for fc3

[Nils Philippsen <nphilipp redhat com>]

On Thu, 2004-04-01 at 08:19, Dan Burcaw wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 22:18, Chris Kloiber wrote:
> > On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 21:03, Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 01:15, Shahms King wrote:
> > > 
> > > > > /media - all the removable media and silliness there.
> > > > 
> > > > And why isn't /mnt adequate for removable media?
> > > 
> > > I don't think /mnt has anything wrong with it, but FHS specifies that
> > > /media is a better name for a removable device and indeed, /media is
> > > what SuSE uses.
> > 
> > If SuSe decides to jump off the Brooklyn Bridge, are we expected to
> > blindly follow?
> 
> Is SuSE doing something reason not to do it in Fedora/RHEL, etc?

No, it isn't really, though we have some umm reservations on device
naming, file system naming related stuff when it comes from Nuremberg
;-).

/media being used by SuSE is not a reason to do it nor to not do it. So
it would be best to leave "SuSE does/doesn't do this that way" aside as
an argument.

Nils
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