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From: Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: Richard Sent <richard@freakingpenguin.com>, guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Changing the defaults for --localstatedir and --sysconfdir?
Date: Thu, 2 May 2024 14:58:39 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZjON___RIjYhsQAz@jurong> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sez0zizk.fsf@gnu.org>

Am Thu, May 02, 2024 at 11:00:15AM +0200 schrieb Ludovic Courtès:
> 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?

I have always been in favour of /var and /etc as defaults, and
unsurprisingly still am. That would make the "technical" default coincide
with the "social" default.

Another option discussed at the time, but which would require to start from
scratch in a sense, is to have everything Guix related under /gnu. I have
always found it weird that the database registering the contents of
/gnu/store was not close to /gnu/store; by moving it into /gnu, one could
delete/backup/restore the directory easily.

Andreas



  parent reply	other threads:[~2024-05-02 12:59 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
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 [this message]
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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