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

[Xavier]

On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 10:36 AM, David C. Rankin
<drankinatty at suddenlinkmail.com> wrote:
> On Friday 02 October 2009 04:13:13 am Dieter Plaetinck wrote:
>> > 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
>>
>
> +1
>
> Even larger web apps with tight mysql dependencies, etc. are simple enough to
> install and usually come with good config scripts (Gallery2, eGroupWare,
> etc.). With web servers in many different locations for people that move to
> Arch, I think packaged web apps that try for a default "Arch" config could
> potentially cause more user headaches than they cure. SuSE and others have
> tried packaging web apps with limited success. The two exceptions to that are
> generally phpadministrator and phpmyadmin which I have seen successfully
> packaged by several distros.
>

Dieter was saying it would be better to manage webapps with the package manager.
You are apparently saying the opposite. So why +1 ?