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

[Phillip Smith]

According to the FHS, /srv is for "site-specific" data served by the host:
http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#SRVDATAFORSERVICESPROVIDEDBYSYSTEM

IMHO, this means webapps. The FHS makes specific mention that a distribution
must take care not to touch user files in this directory, which infers that
it is acceptable (expected?) that distributions will put files here.

I also strongly agree that user modifyable files (eg, configuration files)
must not be put anywhere in /usr and splitting the configuration into /etc
like non-webapps is just a security nightmare. We also want to avoid
untrusted processes like apache/lighttpd having read/write access into /usr
where ever possible. Referring to the FHS again:

"*/usr** is shareable, read-only data. That means that /usr should be
shareable between various FHS-compliant hosts and must not be written to.
Any information that is host-specific or varies with time is stored
elsewhere.*"

Keywords: "read-only", "must not be written to" and "host-specific"