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Subject: Re: units_cur
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2018 19:10:43 +0200
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Pierre Neidhardt <ambrevar@gmail.com> skribis:

> Ludovic Court=C3=A8s <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> Hmm, dunno.  Perhaps we could modify =E2=80=98units=E2=80=99 to look for
>> /var/run/units/currency.units first, and fall back to
>> /gnu/store/=E2=80=A6-units/share/units/currency.units.
>>
>> We would also arrange for =E2=80=98units_cur=E2=80=99 to update the file=
 in /var/run by
>> default.
>>
>> WDYT?
>
> That sounds reasonable to me.  What's the purpose of /var/run on GuixSD?
> How is it used?

On GNU/Linux /var/run is the standard location to store =E2=80=9Cstate=E2=
=80=9D files.
See =E2=80=98runstatedir=E2=80=99 in
<https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Directory-Variables.html>.

Ludo=E2=80=99.