On Sun, Mar 11, 2001 at 11:52:41AM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > However, I'd like to put images in something like /usr/share/web-images, > since I _might_ end up cluttering around and overwriting files which I > shouldn't, by placing the images in /var/www/mailman-images. Also, it looks > messy, IMHO. > > So what I propose is that we create a new directory /usr/share/images (or > something like that), which is available via the web as > http://server/images/. Packages create sub-directories, so that Mailman will > have /usr/share/images/mailman/logo.jpg which will be referred to as > http://server/images/mailman/logo.jpg .
I like this idea. /usr/share/doc is really not the right place for images, and placing them there simply because it happens to be web-accessible is an unnecessary kludge. Slightly less unappetizing is to place the images in /usr/share/<package> and symlink from /var/www to there. Policy recommends against this, but I like it for systems that I administer. It makes it a simple matter to symlink from the real doc root (or appropriate virtual host doc root) to the links in /var/www and /usr/lib/cgi-bin and have everything work. -- - mdz
