On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 13:23, Thomas Bächler <thomas@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)