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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: DA13730606 X-Migadu-Scanner: mx12.migadu.com X-Migadu-Spam-Score: -10.08 X-Spam-Score: -10.08 X-TUID: iWY3Ev15BW3q Hi Richard, Richard Sent 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=3D/var and --sysconfdir=3D/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=E2=80=99s how we ended up with t= he =E2=80=98GUIX_CHECK_LOCALSTATEDIR=E2=80=99 macro that warns users but lets = them explicitly pass =E2=80=98--localstatedir=E2=80=99.) 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=E2=80=99.