Through my Referer logs, I stumbled over this reply to my earlier entry on the FHS , which points out /srv as the answer to my criticisms. However, as the author of it notes:

[...] Then again I haven't seen any package management that doessomething to /srv [...]

Well, yeah. That's the problem; no one uses it. The FHS in theory mightinclude /srv to deal with my exact criticisms, but it doesn't

Back a month or so ago, Slashdot ran a story about how a lot of the people who are very positive on thin clientsdon't actually use one themselves and instead use what they call'fat clients' (ie, regular computers). That started me thinkingabout the general issue because it sort of applies here; we have athin client infrastructure, yet neither I nor any of my fellowsysadmins here uses it. In fact I don't use either a thin clientor what I consider a