I'd guess it's because that is what is recommended by the FHS: http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#SRVDATAFORSERVICESPROVIDEDBYSYSTEM I kind of like having it separate, and think it makes sense, even though that's not what I've always been used to. It's definitely a more consistent and centralized location to store things that are served by the system. -- Aaron "ElasticDog" Schaefer On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 10:07 AM, Jon Kristian Nilsen <jokr.nilsen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I know this change has been running for some time now, but out of curiousity > i'd like to know why it's been descided to put phpmyadmin/apache stuff in a > new root folder called /srv/ instead of /home/* > Isn't this a very personal setup compared to having this in the already > existing /home/ folder? And not to forget that the change created a great > deal of extra work for users who has been using /home/.. > > /srv/ must have some hidden important stability boosts?? And please don't > get me wrong, i don't really care, > since i have most of these folders mounted the way i want them, im still > going to rebuild these packages and more using abs. > > Im just curious... > > -JK >
