[fhs-discuss] tighten the use and intention of the "/var" hierarchy

[Matthew Miller]

On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 09:19:09AM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> There is no keeping /var/www, it's not in the FHS.

If we want the FHS to actually be relevant and accepted by anyone, it has to
codify and clarify existing conventions. /var/www might not be the best
place, but it's got a pretty serious legacy in both Red Hat and Debian
distributions, and their derivatives. We can _say_ that the standard is
beautiful rainbow unicorn ponies, but everyone is just going to ignore us.

Any meaningful revision to the standard needs to take that into account.

If you want to gradually steer people to a better location than /var/www,
the FHS might be a place for _some_ of that advocacy, but since this isn't a
law-making organization (and not even an official standards body), it's
probably best taken up as the last place to address such concerns, not the
place to start.

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