From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jookia <166291@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc: Explain --localstatedir some more. Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2016 08:24:44 +1100 Message-ID: <20160309212444.GA8683@novena-choice-citizen.lan> References: <56e089f1.cf0b1c0a.16f31.1c9a@mx.google.com> <20160309210703.GA26811@solar> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37504) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from <166291@gmail.com>) id 1adlca-0007Eg-GA for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2016 16:26:21 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from <166291@gmail.com>) id 1adlcX-0004oE-7g for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2016 16:26:20 -0500 Received: from mail-wm0-x233.google.com ([2a00:1450:400c:c09::233]:34758) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from <166291@gmail.com>) id 1adlcX-0004o9-0x for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2016 16:26:17 -0500 Received: by mail-wm0-x233.google.com with SMTP id p65so3791141wmp.1 for ; Wed, 09 Mar 2016 13:26:16 -0800 (PST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20160309210703.GA26811@solar> 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: Andreas Enge Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org On Wed, Mar 09, 2016 at 10:07:03PM +0100, Andreas Enge wrote: > I still think we should make /var the default of localstatedir; this would > avoid most problems. > > Andreas, doing his Cicero As much as that's appealing, this breaks GNU conventions. I think it'd be nice to put the state in the store directory by default since it seems the two are related, though this might not be the case in other situations. Jookia.