From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Craven Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/9] activation: Allow /var/lib to be a home directory. Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2016 19:19:54 +0200 Message-ID: References: <20160901155711.7388-1-david@craven.ch> <20160901155711.7388-2-david@craven.ch> <877fautt35.fsf@member.fsf.org> <87eg525inn.fsf@we.make.ritual.n0.is> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36787) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bfs8I-0007AA-0J for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Sep 2016 13:20:02 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bfs8D-0003D4-Gz for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Sep 2016 13:20:00 -0400 Received: from mail-yw0-x235.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4002:c05::235]:33439) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bfs8C-0003Cn-81 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Sep 2016 13:19:57 -0400 Received: by mail-yw0-x235.google.com with SMTP id l8so6143202ywb.0 for ; Fri, 02 Sep 2016 10:19:55 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87eg525inn.fsf@we.make.ritual.n0.is> 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" To: ng0 Cc: guix-devel > And instead of handing this particular case, > how about create any parent directory > of HOME? I briefly thought about it and thought that we should discourage users to pick *any* home directory. This will prevent them from doing so. But it's just an artificial restriction. In that case it's a bug fix instead of a feature ;-)