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[Seth Alan Woolley <seth AT positivism.org>]

Arwed, et al.,

I was just reading the draft FHS 2.3 today, oddly enough, and I didn't
like the /srv and /media ideas then, either.

If they force /media on us, I say we symlink it to /mnt and then change
our files to say /media instead of /mnt.  (Do we actually have anything
in our code dealing touching /mnt?)

As far as /srv: /var/www /var/pgsql /var/<service> seem a lot more
natural to me.

Personally, I always make a /web a symlink to my web data directory on
every distro I use because I can never remember where everything is
supposed to go, and /data for the database.  But I wouldn't force it on
users.

right now I check /var, /usr, /usr/local, /home, /etc, /opt for where
things install.  I'm used to a diversity, I guess.  It sure would be
nice to standardize it, and /var/<service> is my preferred location for
default service data.

I also feel for the tab-completion arguments.  /srv and /sbin, /media
and /mnt ... VERY bad idea to pollute the root dir tab-encoding with
those.

I would suggest they add /var/chroot/<lanana> for chrooted services as
well.

Seth
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