[gentoo-dev] Re: any interest in removing /usr/qt and /usr/kde ?

[Joel Konkle-Parker]

Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 00:03:59 +0000 Luke-Jr <luke-jr@×××××××.org> wrote:
> | Exactly. For a *system administrator* to *temporarily* mount a
> | filesystem in. This means 'mount some-temp-filesystem /mnt'
> | temporarily, not 'mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom; mount /dev/fd0
> | /mnt/floppy; etc' perminantly.--
>
> Why have a specific toplevel for that? No need, just use cwd or $HOME.
> Surely you don't think the FHS is thaaaaat silly? By 'temporary' they've
> gotta mean 'not always mounted'. Anything else is madness.
>

http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#MEDIAMOUNTPOINT

/media : Mount point for removeable media
Purpose

This directory contains subdirectories which are used as mount points 
for removeable media such as floppy disks, cdroms and zip disks.

Tip	Rationale
  	

Historically there have been a number of other different places used to 
mount removeable media such as /cdrom, /mnt or /mnt/cdrom. Placing the 
mount points for all removeable media directly in the root directory 
would potentially result in a large number of extra directories in /. 
Although the use of subdirectories in /mnt as a mount point has recently 
been common, it conflicts with a much older tradition of using /mnt 
directly as a temporary mount point.


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Joel Konkle-Parker
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