[arch-general] let's discuss /srv again

[Loui Chang]

On Fri 02 Oct 2009 12:23 +0200, Thomas Bächler 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.

If you're asking for opinions, I think that the web apps should go into
/usr/share/<pkgname> then the user can then copy the data over to suit
their web server set up.