William Hubbs posted on Sat, 10 Feb 2018 12:15:43 -0600 as excerpted: >> # shouldn't appear on a desktop/workstation system, but bugs... >> /srv -> tmp > > Keep in mind that /tmp is wiped during a reboot, so /srv should be > separate from /tmp.
FWIW that was deliberate. Indeed, /tmp is tmpfs here. =:^) TL;DR: Stop. The package in question (some indexer kde4 used for its handbooks, IIRC, I'm not even sure it's still needed for frameworks-5 based handbooks or whether it's still installed) is primarily used in web servers and the like, and installed something in /srv to facilitate that. But I didn't need it, was irritated by it, and decided to set things up both to make it temporary, and to create an extremely obvious failure if anything else should ever install anything to /srv that I might actually need more permanently, so with more information if it ever triggered, I could decide on appropriate measures. FWIW, nothing has ever triggered it, so if anything else is or has installed anything to /srv, it's obviously not anything I depend on after a reboot. Of course I could do something similar with a global INSTALL_MASK, but having it pointed at a tmpfs instead lets me examine what's actually installed, if necessary. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman
