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From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Richard Sent <richard@freakingpenguin.com>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Changing the defaults for --localstatedir and --sysconfdir?
Date: Thu, 02 May 2024 11:00:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sez0zizk.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sez19s1o.fsf@freakingpenguin.com> (Richard Sent's message of "Wed, 01 May 2024 16:49:07 -0400")

Hi Richard,

Richard Sent <richard@freakingpenguin.com> skribis:

> As everyone who's built Guix from source knows, when running ./configure
> on a system with an existing Guix installation you must remember to
> specify --localstatedir=/var and --sysconfdir=/etc. I think we should
> consider whether those variables should default to those values.

I think it would make sense.

Before I advocated that we should preferably stick to the GNU standards
and have users make informed choices (that’s how we ended up with the
‘GUIX_CHECK_LOCALSTATEDIR’ macro that warns users but lets them
explicitly pass ‘--localstatedir’.)

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?

Thanks,
Ludo’.


  reply	other threads:[~2024-05-02  9:01 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 [this message]
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
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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