On Fri, 02 Oct 2009 10:58:19 +0200 Firmicus <Firmicus@gmx.net> wrote:
Roman Kyrylych a écrit :
Yes, packaging a webapp is nice for automatic upgrading with pacman, but users can have multiple web servers with multiple vhosts in /srv, so often installing something there won't make it working anyway, and user will copy/move/symlink the app to whatever directory is right for user's webserver config scheme, which is against the idea that package files (except configs) should not be touched by user, but only by package manager.
Also, major php applications usually automatically notify the admin when there is an update. Drupal does it, and phpmyadmin probably too. So there is really *no need* to package them. Whatever I put under /srv/http comes from an upstream download.
this is one of the reasons why many webapps suck. they add bloat such as package/software management features. imho it's not the task of the webapp to do this. and i hate configuring every webapp to do it. Dieter