2011/4/29 seth vidal <skvidal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > On Thu, 2011-04-28 at 23:32 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: >> On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 12:37:26AM +0200, Michał Piotrowski wrote: >> > By the way, maybe it would be good to think about the meaning of /srv >> > existance? For seven years FHS requires that this directory exists >> > http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#PURPOSE16A >> > but "The methodology used to name subdirectories of /srv is >> > unspecified as there is currently no consensus on how this should be >> > done" - so even the authors of the standard did not have anything to >> > say about how this directory should be used. Is there a rational >> > reason for the existence of this directory besides FHS conformance? >> >> Yes. It's where to put non-transient service data that does not belong to a >> user, and does not belong to a package. >> > > +1 - I think /srv is a good dir to have in place to encourage good > practices for storing that kind of data. I think it is very unlikely that the services will start to use /srv/ instead of /var/something because of the backward compatibility. I create my own dir for data and it seemed to me that most people are doing the same. Thats why I wondered if there is any use for this dir. > > -sv > > > -- > devel mailing list > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel -- Best regards, Michal http://eventhorizon.pl/ -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
