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From: Carlos Silva <r3pek@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@××××××××××××.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] /var/ftp VS /home/ftp
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 22:20:30
Message-Id: 1111443555.11549.6.camel@localhost
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] /var/ftp VS /home/ftp by Drake Wyrm
1 On Mon, 2005-03-21 at 13:58 -0800, Drake Wyrm wrote:
2 > At 2005-03-21T14:16:12+0200, Martin Schlemmer <azarah@g.o> wrote:
3 > > On Mon, 2005-03-21 at 11:53 +0000, Carlos Silva wrote:
4 > > > If we are going to follow the FHS standards
5 > >
6 > > We do not follow FHS as such, but rather we agree to do things
7 > > according to the FHS where they are sane, and suite our purpose (think
8 > > /usr/kde which is really not FHS complaint).
9 >
10 > Or /usr/portage, which is also not really FHS compliant.
11 >
12 > Wonderful thing about standards in the technical community. There's no
13 > way to force them on an unwilling populace, so the stupid ones just die
14 > (e.g. /srv, /media). Good ideas like clearing all the effluvia out of
15 > /usr/* and /var/* sometimes survive.
16
17 I was just reading... We have a GLEP about this, GLEP 20 (/srv -
18 Services Home Directory Support)
19
20 It was accepted, maybe we should try to start to move things to /srv...
21 (even if it is a stupid place to put things :X )
22
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Re: [gentoo-dev] /var/ftp VS /home/ftp Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>