From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Enge Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc: Explain --localstatedir some more. Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2016 22:07:03 +0100 Message-ID: <20160309210703.GA26811@solar> References: <56e089f1.cf0b1c0a.16f31.1c9a@mx.google.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60532) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1adlK5-0008Rp-Fw for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2016 16:07:14 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1adlK0-0007z7-HC for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2016 16:07:13 -0500 Received: from mailrelay6.public.one.com ([91.198.169.200]:31182) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1adlK0-0007yx-5Z for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2016 16:07:08 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <56e089f1.cf0b1c0a.16f31.1c9a@mx.google.com> 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 Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 07:35:53AM +1100, Jookia wrote: > This should hopefully stop people from running in to issues when > building Guix from source as they have in the past. I still think we should make /var the default of localstatedir; this would avoid most problems. Andreas, doing his Cicero