From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christopher Allan Webber Subject: Re: The tricky case of "--localstatedir=/var" Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2016 11:11:04 -0800 Message-ID: <87wpq4qxmf.fsf@dustycloud.org> References: <20160216135729.GB13560@novena-choice-citizen.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59957) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aVl1j-0007ut-RV for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Feb 2016 14:11:12 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aVl1e-0002SX-SZ for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Feb 2016 14:11:11 -0500 Received: from dustycloud.org ([50.116.34.160]:40696) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aVl1e-0002SH-PY for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Feb 2016 14:11:06 -0500 In-reply-to: <20160216135729.GB13560@novena-choice-citizen.lan> 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+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Jookia <166291@gmail.com> Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Jookia writes: > Hey there, > > Over the past month a few people (myself included) have been hit by the 'gotcha' > of not running ./configure with "--localstatedir=/var". It doesn't say this in > the documentation but I question whether not having it as /var is a sane > default. I'm sure this is somehow tied to the conventions of /usr/local. > Here's how this issue could be fixed, in order of usefulness: Just chiming into the chorus: this really confounded me. I think the breakdown here is a good one. I'd love to see one of these approaches taken.