Re: Stateful system directories

[Giovanni Biscuolo <g@xelera.eu>]

Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> writes:

[...]

> I prefer to keep workarounds for real bugs out of the Cookbook.

Even in a specific section called "Workarounds" and with a clear warning
they are just _temporary_ workarounds users could decide to use, while
waiting for upstream to fix that specific issue?

We should not cover every single workaround in the Cookbook, but IMHO
giving context (i.e. explaining the stateful nature of some system
directories giving some example to better understand) and the techniques
used are useful information for Guix System users.

...but I still don't have any useful patch to submit, so I'm just still
speculating

> For both fontconfig and the gdm user account’s home directory we
> should push a workaround very soon.

Fine, I also think we should (this should also be well documented in
comments for each service)

Anyway this thread is not specific to any particurar service or package,
or at least I interpreted it as: "how can Guix System users overcome
occasional configuration statefulness in their systems?", this is the
reason why I gave the other example of Nextcloud and how that issue is
managed in Nix (and IMHO it is far from an ideal solution)

[...]

Thanks! Gio'


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Giovanni Biscuolo

Xelera IT Infrastructures