On Fri 02 Oct 2009 12:23 +0200, Thomas Bächler wrote: > Sergej Pupykin schrieb: > > >> Patching them is overkill, it would be an example of the > >unnecessary patching we do not want in > > >> Arch. I would keep them self-contained, no matter which > >solution will be used in the end. I > > >> wouldn't even have such a big problem with having configuration in > > >> /usr/share/www/phpmyadmin/config.inc.php or so. > >>>> In any way, filling /srv with data from pacman is a bad idea, > >>/home and /srv should be user territory only. > >It is not problem for user, but as I understand it should not be > >modificable files in /usr/share/ > > There are many "should"s here: > > - You should not unnecessarily patch applications. > - You should not fill /srv or /home with pacman data > - You should not put user-modifiable files in /usr/share > > The last "should" is IMO the weakest of all. You can easily avoid > violating the first two though. I would say this is the best > solution, but it would be great to have some more opinions from other > devs and TUs here, maybe even some from our overlord. If you're asking for opinions, I think that the web apps should go into /usr/share/<pkgname> then the user can then copy the data over to suit their web server set up.
