Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Introducing /srv into Gentoo Linux

[Kevyn Shortell]

On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 01:43, Paul de Vrieze wrote:

Before we go start changing things to /srv, shouldn't we atleast vote or
do whatever we need to do to actually decide if that is something gentoo
is going to be using? 

/sys I can understand, that was required by the kernel. 

/srv, seems to be one of those frills that doesn't really have enough
positive reasons to just shove down every users throats without some
discussion first.

Changing ebuilds to suddenly start using it, is setting a policy. What
ever happened to the discussion part? =)

kevyn
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> On Wednesday 04 February 2004 01:53, Stuart Herbert wrote:
> > Longer term, I'm sure there are other trees that could find a natural
> > home under /srv.  The various SCM tools could be pointed here, for
> > example. Portage itself is one strong candidate.  Having portage in
> > /usr does make it difficult to run a system with /usr mounted readonly
> > most of the time.
>
> I have just changed the default location for subversion to /srv. This
> should not change anything for existing users, but I agree that we might
> start to use /srv right away.
>
> Paul
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