> I thought the purpose of this project (at least the FHS) is to create a > standard > of what the filesystem should look like, not necessarily what it currently > looks > like. Just because `Everyone is doing it' (tm) doesn't mean it's right. > Personally, I want Linux to be clean and elegant in its implementation, so if > that means breaking from convention and putting mail in /var/mail, so be it. I > for one don't know the answer. Whatever the answer is should be the right one, > not just the one people are doing.
If all the vendors think /var/mail is stupid then its perhaps time for the FHS to ask "ok why.. is there a problem, did we make a bad choice, or did we simply fail to explain the reasons /var/mail is good"
