On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 10:41:39AM +0200, Lukas Kolbe wrote: > I don't really see a problem here. > > The FHS dictates: /src is site-specific. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > The Policy dictates: webapps-files in /usr/share/package/, which I > strongly agree. > > Now, what prevents us writing helper-packages to maintain a subset of, > say, /srv/webapps/?
The underlined portion above. Consider: it's common practice to have /srv/$HOSTNAME for services hosted by the system. Let's say somebody's internal web applications hostname happens to be 'webapps' (and they decided not to bother with the FQDN in the directory). Now you've just trampled over their local configuration. If anything, /srv/www is even more likely to be already in use. Once something has been declared to be site-specific, you can't go back on that. Now, helper packages that maintained a *generic* location would be fine. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
