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@ 2014-01-27 11:50 John Darrington
  2014-01-27 12:57 ` Ludovic Courtès
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 10+ messages in thread
From: John Darrington @ 2014-01-27 11:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: guix-devel

It has come to my attention that guix packages (at least those with gnu build system)
default their statedirs to directories under /nix/store/.  Recall that the statedirs (ie: 
sharedstatedir localstatedir and runstatedir) are for installing data files *which the programs
modify while they run* [1].   Obviously a program cannot modify anything under /nix/store
I think we need to update the default configure flags.

J'

[1] http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/standards.html#Directory-Variables


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2014-01-27 11:50 statedir locations John Darrington
2014-01-27 12:57 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-01-27 13:44   ` Mark H Weaver
2014-01-27 14:46     ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-01-28  5:05       ` Mark H Weaver
2014-01-28  9:49         ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-01-27 22:48   ` Ludovic Courtès
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2014-01-28 17:53       ` John Darrington
2014-01-28 22:11         ` Ludovic Courtès

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