This one time, at band camp, Carl Fürstenberg said: > On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 19:58, Stephen Gran <sgran@debian.org> wrote: > > > > I don't think there's any excemption needed. The FHS already makes it > > essentially impossible for distributors to place anything under /srv. > > Not putting anything there means it's a fairly daft idea to have a > > webroot pointing there and expect anything to work out of the box. > > I was refering to the use of /var/www, which isn't FHS valid, and no > excemption is made in the policy about that. The FHS is not an exhaustive list of every directory on the system, so I'm not convinced that introducing a new directory needs an excemption either. We don't currently have an excemption for /etc/default, for example. But to short circuit this, I vote for leaving it alone, and not changing anything in policy. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : sgran@debian.org | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
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