From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>
Cc: Richard Sent <richard@freakingpenguin.com>, guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Changing the defaults for --localstatedir and --sysconfdir?
Date: Mon, 06 May 2024 12:06:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bk5jl0ef.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZjPBQjevy-xJhP94@pbp> (Efraim Flashner's message of "Thu, 2 May 2024 19:37:22 +0300")
Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il> skribis:
> On Thu, May 02, 2024 at 02:58:39PM +0200, Andreas Enge wrote:
>> Am Thu, May 02, 2024 at 11:00:15AM +0200 schrieb Ludovic Courtès:
>> > That was 8 years ago though (eight!). At this point I think defaulting
>> > to /var and /etc would do more good than harm.
>> > What do others think?
>>
>> I have always been in favour of /var and /etc as defaults, and
>> unsurprisingly still am. That would make the "technical" default coincide
>> with the "social" default.
>>
>> Another option discussed at the time, but which would require to start from
>> scratch in a sense, is to have everything Guix related under /gnu. I have
>> always found it weird that the database registering the contents of
>> /gnu/store was not close to /gnu/store; by moving it into /gnu, one could
>> delete/backup/restore the directory easily.
>
> It certainly would be nice to have everything Guix related under /gnu,
> then we could also have the option of giving it its own btrfs subvolume.
Maybe, but that’s a much too complicated change…
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-05-06 10:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-05-01 20:49 Changing the defaults for --localstatedir and --sysconfdir? Richard Sent
2024-05-02 9:00 ` Ludovic Courtès
2024-05-02 9:11 ` Attila Lendvai
2024-05-02 23:23 ` Romain
2024-05-02 11:31 ` Janneke Nieuwenhuizen
2024-05-02 18:14 ` Vagrant Cascadian via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
2024-05-02 12:58 ` Andreas Enge
2024-05-02 16:37 ` Efraim Flashner
2024-05-06 10:06 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2024-05-02 16:35 ` Efraim Flashner
2024-06-07 12:54 ` Felix Lechner via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
2024-06-09 0:58 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2024-05-03 10:10 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2024-05-06 10:08 ` Ludovic Courtès
2024-05-07 20:07 ` Simon Tournier
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