[Fedora-packaging] Re: Packaging into /srv? (was: FHS Compliance?)

Alan Cox alan at redhat.com
Mon Oct 23 19:04:30 UTC 2006


On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 08:08:36PM +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> would be to forbid *any* pre-configuration for *any* service the FHS
> puts in /srv/, which is plain ridiculous (should apps ignore conf files
> settings and embark in automagical /srv/ exploration heuristics too?
> that's another absolutist reading)

/srv is ridiculous from any sane interpretation. It got in purely because
the people actually doing useful work accidentally briefly got outnumbered
by people with no experience and opinions when it was voted on

> is providing a particular /srv layout ??? the FHS forbids them to expect a
> particular layout. That includes an empty /srv.

And empty it should stay




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