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* Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: any interest in removing /usr/qt and /usr/kde ?
  @ 2004-09-20  0:03 99%     ` Luke-Jr
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From: Luke-Jr @ 2004-09-20  0:03 UTC (permalink / raw
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On Sunday 19 September 2004 11:06 pm, Thomas Weidner wrote:
> Luke-Jr wrote:
>   > IIRC, having /mnt as anything but an empty directory conflicts with the
>   > FHS also. Gentoo uses /mnt as FHS's /media
>
> /mnt : Mount point for a temporarily mounted filesystem
> Purpose
>
> This directory is provided so that the system administrator may
> temporarily mount a filesystem as needed. The content of this directory
> is a local issue and should not affect the manner in which any program
> is run.
>
> This directory must not be used by installation programs: a suitable
> temporary directory not in use by the system must be used instead.

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.
-- 
Luke-Jr
Developer, Utopios
http://utopios.org/

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