From: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <tobias.geerinckx.rice@gmail.com>
To: Jookia <166291@gmail.com>
Cc: guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: The tricky case of "--localstatedir=/var"
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2016 17:04:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKFHe2R7zNp6=NYjhHMSuPwFvqPnh4eFOhQfUPDH-BiSOmiSdg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160216135729.GB13560@novena-choice-citizen.lan>
Hullo Guix,
On 16 February 2016 at 14:57, Jookia <166291@gmail.com> wrote:
> <snip>
>
> * Put the localstatedir in /gnu.
>
> This is actually what Nix does, so I'm a little surprised as to why Guix has
> deviated from this practice. This will require updating all the patches to use
> /gnu/var as the localstatedir. What you get from this is the idea that the state
> is linked with the store (which it is!) and more importantly, comes in to the
> territory of GNU.
As a newcomer from a certain Nix-based OS, /var/gnu surprised me.
Store state and integrity are so closely tied to the sqlite database
that it's strange to see them so far apart. I assume there are other
reasons for using /var, and I assume these are reasons are logs.
(Disregarding FHS traditionalism as an option for everyone's sanity.)
I actually searched for a discussion about this in Guix's past, but
found none. I await the link of loving correction.
Kind regards,
T G-R
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-16 16:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-16 13:57 The tricky case of "--localstatedir=/var" Jookia
2016-02-16 14:29 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2016-02-16 14:52 ` Jookia
2016-02-16 16:41 ` Andreas Enge
2016-02-16 17:12 ` Jookia
2016-02-16 17:16 ` Andreas Enge
2016-02-16 16:04 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice [this message]
2016-02-16 16:08 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2016-02-16 19:11 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2016-02-16 19:59 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2016-02-16 22:42 ` Mark H Weaver
2016-02-17 9:29 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2016-02-17 8:06 ` Chris Marusich
2016-02-17 8:38 ` Jookia
2016-02-17 9:15 ` Chris Marusich
2016-02-17 10:08 ` Jookia
2016-02-17 17:50 ` Chris Marusich
2016-02-17 18:00 ` Jookia
2016-02-17 18:23 ` Andreas Enge
2016-03-17 22:11 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-03-17 22:19 ` Mathieu Lirzin
2016-03-18 1:12 ` Jookia
2016-03-18 18:45 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-03-19 3:27 ` Jookia
2016-03-19 14:11 ` Ludovic Courtès
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