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In-Reply-To: (Efraim Flashner's message of "Thu, 2 May 2024 19:37:22 +0300") References: <87sez19s1o.fsf@freakingpenguin.com> <87sez0zizk.fsf@gnu.org> X-URL: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ X-Revolutionary-Date: Octidi 18 =?utf-8?Q?Flor=C3=A9al?= an 232 de la =?utf-8?Q?R=C3=A9volution=2C?= jour de la Corbeille-d'or X-PGP-Key-ID: 0x090B11993D9AEBB5 X-PGP-Key: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ludovic.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: 3CE4 6455 8A84 FDC6 9DB4 0CFB 090B 1199 3D9A EBB5 X-OS: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu Date: Mon, 06 May 2024 12:06:48 +0200 Message-ID: <87bk5jl0ef.fsf@gnu.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-BeenThere: guix-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org X-Migadu-Country: US X-Migadu-Flow: FLOW_IN X-Migadu-Queue-Id: ADF5E1A14F X-Migadu-Scanner: mx12.migadu.com X-Migadu-Spam-Score: -10.15 X-Spam-Score: -10.15 X-TUID: 2MitaRK0Zfqh Efraim Flashner 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 Court=C3=A8s: >> > 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? >>=20 >> 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. >>=20 >> Another option discussed at the time, but which would require to start f= rom >> 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=E2=80=99s a much too complicated change=E2=80=A6 Ludo=E2=80=99.