From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Enge Subject: Re: The tricky case of "--localstatedir=/var" Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2016 18:16:52 +0100 Message-ID: <20160216171652.GA6167@solar> References: <20160216135729.GB13560@novena-choice-citizen.lan> <20160216164109.GA5983@solar> <20160216171232.GA12187@novena-choice-citizen.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58006) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aVjFH-0004RA-IY for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Feb 2016 12:17:04 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aVjFB-0001h5-PG for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Feb 2016 12:17:03 -0500 Received: from mailrelay6.public.one.com ([91.198.169.200]:35345) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aVjFB-0001gz-B7 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Feb 2016 12:16:57 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20160216171232.GA12187@novena-choice-citizen.lan> 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-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Jookia <166291@gmail.com> Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 04:12:32AM +1100, Jookia wrote: > I'm not sure how that would really fix the issue that people are hitting: Say we > move some of the content to /gnu, things like profiles, the daemon socket, all > the things that Guix looks for and symlinks to won't be found if Guix looks in > /usr/local/var/guix and /gnu instead of /var/guix and /gnu. I meant mixing both of your suggestions: move some of the data to /gnu, and make /var the default for (the remaining) localstatedir. Andreas