[arch-general] let's discuss /srv again

[Roman Kyrylych]

On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 13:23, Thomas Bächler <thomas at archlinux.org> wrote:
> Sergej Pupykin schrieb:
>>
>>  >> Patching them is overkill, it would be an example of the unnecessary
>> patching we do not want in
>>  >> Arch. I would keep them self-contained, no matter which solution will
>> be used in the end. I
>>  >> wouldn't even have such a big problem with having configuration in
>>  >> /usr/share/www/phpmyadmin/config.inc.php or so.
>>>
>>> >> In any way, filling /srv with data from pacman is a bad idea, /home
>>> >> and /srv should be user territory only.
>>
>> It is not problem for user, but as I understand it should not be
>> modificable files in /usr/share/
>
> There are many "should"s here:
>
> - You should not unnecessarily patch applications.
> - You should not fill /srv or /home with pacman data
> - You should not put user-modifiable files in /usr/share
>
> The last "should" is IMO the weakest of all. You can easily avoid violating
> the first two though. I would say this is the best solution, but it would be
> great to have some more opinions from other devs and TUs here, maybe even
> some from our overlord.

Modifiable files are not allowed in /usr/share according to FHS.
But we have /opt which is intended for self-containing apps
which is exactly what webapps are.

-- 
Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)