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From: Ned Ludd <solar@g.o>
To: Kevyn Shortell <trance@g.o>
Cc: Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@g.o>, gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Introducing /srv into Gentoo Linux
Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2004 09:58:09
Message-Id: 1075974776.16545.1563.camel@simple
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Introducing /srv into Gentoo Linux by Kevyn Shortell
1 On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 11:14, Kevyn Shortell wrote:
2 > On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 01:43, Paul de Vrieze wrote:
3 >
4 > Before we go start changing things to /srv, shouldn't we atleast vote or
5 > do whatever we need to do to actually decide if that is something gentoo
6 > is going to be using?
7 >
8 > /sys I can understand, that was required by the kernel.
9 >
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12 > /srv, seems to be one of those frills that doesn't really have enough
13 > positive reasons to just shove down every users throats without some
14 > discussion first.
15 >
16 > Changing ebuilds to suddenly start using it, is setting a policy. What
17 > ever happened to the discussion part? =)
18
19 I'll second this. And inject that no ebuild should ever run around
20 creating directory's on the root file system that's outside of the
21 baselayout on the root fs. It makes it difficult for acl & role based
22 system maintainers when these types of changes happen suddenly.
23
24 >
25 > kevyn
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29 > > On Wednesday 04 February 2004 01:53, Stuart Herbert wrote:
30 > > > Longer term, I'm sure there are other trees that could find a natural
31 > > > home under /srv. The various SCM tools could be pointed here, for
32 > > > example. Portage itself is one strong candidate. Having portage in
33 > > > /usr does make it difficult to run a system with /usr mounted readonly
34 > > > most of the time.
35 > >
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38 > > I have just changed the default location for subversion to /srv. This
39 > > should not change anything for existing users, but I agree that we might
40 > > start to use /srv right away.
41
42 Please revert back to the old behavior and allow this to
43 happen via the proper channels that trance has pointed out.
44
45 > >
46 > > Paul
47 > >
48 > > - --
49 > > Paul de Vrieze
50 > > Gentoo Developer
51 > > Mail: pauldv@g.o
52 > > Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net
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64 Ned Ludd <solar@g.o>
65 Gentoo Linux Developer

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