On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 11:14, Kevyn Shortell wrote: > 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? =) I'll second this. And inject that no ebuild should ever run around creating directory's on the root file system that's outside of the baselayout on the root fs. It makes it difficult for acl & role based system maintainers when these types of changes happen suddenly. > > kevyn > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > 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. Please revert back to the old behavior and allow this to happen via the proper channels that trance has pointed out. > > > > Paul > > > > - -- > > Paul de Vrieze > > Gentoo Developer > > Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) > > > > iD8DBQFAIL7HbKx5DBjWFdsRAh5zAJ9s6DwUn+01PI2i/hPml1KupBAspACgxxpe > > iJX+PAArFdYtW0M1yecEDyY= > > =Ky+5 > > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > > -- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- Ned Ludd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gentoo Linux Developer
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