On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 01:43:48PM +0100, Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote:
> The problem is not why not? The problem is why. A mount point was
> chosen, which is not stupid, documentation and web contents were
> written, people have started getting used to it. So, why changing it
> now ? So from my point of view, Jan patch looks like a patch that
> has been submitted without thinking to the consequences, and changes
> things for bad reasons.

The original choice of /mnt does not consider the consequences. 

> The sentence you quote does not really apply to xenomai, since
> xenomai is not an "installation program". The standard basically
> says that software installed by the distribution has no business
> messing with /mnt. But Xenomai is not installed by a distribution.
> If distibutions want to change this directory when they make xenomai
> their own package, they will apply patches, they do this all the
> time, and document the difference in
> /usr/share/doc/xenomai/README.Debian

Debian includes xenomai packages.  So yes it can be installed by a
distribution.

Make the mount point a configurable option (compile time is fine) so
at least when building packages for a distribution the location can be
changed to something sane.

-- 
Len Sorensen

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