I was away when this thread started, and haven't caught up with all the posts 
yet, so apologies if this has already been said.

On Tuesday 23 September 2003 9:08 pm, Stanislav Brabec wrote:
> There are other issues, too:
> 3)
> /home/httpd (/home is reserved for users, service home is not yet
> standardized, will probably be /srv, currently /var/lib or /var is used
> in other distros, too)
> Causes big problem on AFS or NFS /home systems (unable to emerge update
> on client machines; unable to have two webservers in one network,
> because they are sharing data).

We're moving /home/httpd to be /var/www/localhost, and this will come in very 
shortly.

Best regards,
Stu
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