Le lundi 23 octobre 2006 à 13:28 -0400, Matthew Miller a écrit : > On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 07:15:48PM +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > > > > FHS says both that we must not impose any particular directory > > > > structure within /srv, and that we must use /srv as the "default > > > > location" for storing data used by services. The only way to satisfy > > > > that would be to do the equivalent of "DocumentRoot /srv" for every > > > > service, which would be simply stupid. > > > It doesn't say you must not have any particular defaults in srv -- just > > > that applications must not expect it to be in any particular way. > > Replace applications there by third-party applications > > No, I don't think so, actually. > > > Obviously Fedora-packaged apps can expect whatever Fedora layout Fedora > > provides. > > Why is that obvious? Because it's unreasonable to forbid an entity to rely on its own actions? The FHS wrote its specification in the context of an app installed on a foreign system, not in the context of a distro which controls the whole system The FHS basically writes app authors must write apps so app users can configure whatever /srv/ layout they want. It says no entity can expect another entity to provide any particular /srv/ layout. But in the context of a distribution : — we are providing a /srv/ layout for ourselves (acting in-stead of users, which is what distributions are supposed to do) — users are still free to reconfigure apps with whatever policy they prefer if they don't like the Fedora one. I don't see how the document could be read otherwise. The alternative would be to forbid *any* pre-configuration for *any* service the FHS puts in /srv/, which is plain ridiculous (should apps ignore conf files settings and embark in automagical /srv/ exploration heuristics too? that's another absolutist reading) And BTW pre-configuring is *safe*. *No* app author can complain Fedora is providing a particular /srv layout — the FHS forbids them to expect a particular layout. That includes an empty /srv. -- Nicolas Mailhot -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
