From: Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il>
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 19:35:14 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZjPAws8G1W0NwzUd@pbp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sez0zizk.fsf@gnu.org>
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On Thu, May 02, 2024 at 11:00:15AM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Hi Richard,
>
> Richard Sent <richard@freakingpenguin.com> 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=/var and --sysconfdir=/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’s how we ended up with the
> ‘GUIX_CHECK_LOCALSTATEDIR’ macro that warns users but lets them
> explicitly pass ‘--localstatedir’.)
>
> 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 think changing the defaults to use /var and /etc by default would be a
good change. If someone needs to use the /usr/local/{var,etc}
directories they're able to change back to the previous defaults
themselves.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-05-02 16:35 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
2024-05-02 16:37 ` Efraim Flashner
2024-05-06 10:06 ` Ludovic Courtès
2024-05-02 16:35 ` Efraim Flashner [this message]
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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