Ben Finney wrote:
> I'm now in favour of '/srv' being out of bounds for the package
> manager, like '/usr/local'.
The FHS is pretty amusing on this topic:
Distributions must take care not to remove locally placed files in these
directories (/srv/*) without administrator permission. [20]
[20] This is particularly important as these areas will often contain both
files initially installed by the distributor, and those added by
the administrator.
So the FHS allows a package to install files to /srv (with care), but
they cannot be removed when the package is -- so it would be a very
strange package that did so. It also seems to allow packages to
install/remove empty directories in /srv similarly to the way policy
allows in /usr/local.
--
see shy jo
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