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Date:      Fri, 5 May 1995 19:22:47 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Adam David <adam@veda.is>
To:        pst@shockwave.com (Paul Traina)
Cc:        ache@astral.msk.su, CVS-commiters@freefall.cdrom.com, cvs-ports@freefall.cdrom.com, torstenb@freefall.cdrom.com
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/news/inn/pkg PLIST
Message-ID:  <199505051922.TAA22862@veda.is>
In-Reply-To: <199505051836.LAA01898@precipice.shockwave.com> from "Paul Traina" at May 5, 95 11:36:58 am

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> What does renaming /var/spool/news to /var/news fix?

Might there be sites that have a separate partition for /var/spool ?

> Are we just doing it to follow our OWN convention?

/var/news is the suggested default in the latest Cnews.
 
> /var/news is stupid, we're doing it ourselves, we'll have to fix every piece
> 	  of news related software that looks for /var/spool/news and we're
> 	  just making porting and maintenance that much more of a pain.

Before /var/spool it was /usr/spool.

Previous versions of Cnews suggested using /var/spool/news but leave the
programs compiled for /usr/spool/news, and fix it with a symbolic link.
It does not really matter whether the news partition is mounted on /var or
/var/spool because the other option could be covered by using a symbolic link.

--
Adam David <adam@veda.is>



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