> > I agree. I also don't think it's a big deal. What's important is that > > all of the MUA's get compiled so that they look for the mail spool in > > /var/mail. If /var/mail is a symlink to /var/spool/mail, or /u3/mail, > > or something else --- that's fine. > > Adding that symlink can be done easily by the admin of a machine. Why > do you already want to do it on the distribution level? > > I'd either want the standard to move everything to /var/mail and > abandom /var/spool/mail or to keep with /var/spool/mail.
For interoperability reasons. It is not good if people can't use binaries or scripts from another distribution. > The move to /var/mail would take some time for the Linux community until > it is finished. The end result would be that (just like now with /var/mail) > some admins will add a link from /var/spool/mail to the new /var/mail to > be compatible with old Linux systems or DEC machines. > > So the move to /var/mail will get us some confusion in the Linux community > and at the end we will have the same situation as now: some admins will > have to add a compatibility symlink. We achieved nothing... > > Please think about it and stay with /var/spool/mail. -hpa