[CentOS-devel] Re: rpmRepo Web Apps Filesystem Directory

Jean-Marc LIGER wrote:

Another disappointing question for me is the desigend Web Apps directory.

The Filesystem Hierarchy Standard recommends /srv/www but only one of the big, SuSE, uses it.

On the Fedora/Red Hat front, this has been debated several times within the packaging committee, the consensus right now (as I understand it, mind you) is that the FHS's wording of /srv usage implies that this is for *site-specific* stuff only, and the OS (in general) shouldn't touch or assume anything about it's structure. So, fedora currently recommends packages follow-suit, and not put anything there, or assume anything about it's content.

That said, I wish FHS wording were a bit more flexible to allow otherwise, but that's how things stand atm.

-- Rex