Bug#314808: Suggestion
On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 10:41:39AM +0200, Lukas Kolbe wrote:
> I don't really see a problem here.
>
> The FHS dictates: /src is site-specific.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> The Policy dictates: webapps-files in /usr/share/package/, which I
> strongly agree.
>
> Now, what prevents us writing helper-packages to maintain a subset of,
> say, /srv/webapps/?
The underlined portion above.
Consider: it's common practice to have /srv/$HOSTNAME for services
hosted by the system. Let's say somebody's internal web applications
hostname happens to be 'webapps' (and they decided not to bother with
the FQDN in the directory). Now you've just trampled over their local
configuration. If anything, /srv/www is even more likely to be already
in use.
Once something has been declared to be site-specific, you can't go back
on that.
Now, helper packages that maintained a *generic* location would be fine.
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@debian.org]
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