Re: Future: fhs 2.3 compliance for fc3

seth vidal (skvidal@phy.duke.edu) said:

I talked to bill nottingham about it - he didn't seem opposed to /srv but a bit annoyed by /media

I don't think it matters fhs compliance is a must, imo.

/srv - well, there's no real *other* good place for this stuff, so, go for it.

/media, though, as a standard, is *completely* wrongheaded. Standardizing device names and mountpoints, when they should be left up to sysadmin discretion. Moreover, it doesn't even completely standardize them; there's holes in the naming. And, in any case, all of this information should be exposed to user space via names created by udev, and by a library interface such as HAL; not by a standard that's always going to be playing catchup with new device types.

Bill