Ok, thanks for clearing this up. On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 2:24 PM, Aaron Schaefer wrote:

I'd guess it's because that is what is recommended by the FHS:

http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#SRVDATAFORSERVICESPROVIDEDBYSYS...

I kind of like having it separate, and think it makes sense, even though that's not what I've always been used to. It's definitely a more consistent and centralized location to store things that are served by the system.

-- Aaron "ElasticDog" Schaefer

On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 10:07 AM, Jon Kristian Nilsen wrote:

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I know this change has been running for some time now, but out of curiousity i'd like to know why it's been descided to put phpmyadmin/apache stuff in a new root folder called /srv/ instead of /home/* Isn't this a very personal setup compared to having this in the already existing /home/ folder? And not to forget that the change created a great deal of extra work for users who has been using /home/..

/srv/ must have some hidden important stability boosts?? And please don't get me wrong, i don't really care, since i have most of these folders mounted the way i want them, im still going to rebuild these packages and more using abs.

Im just curious...

-JK