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Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc: Explain --localstatedir some more.
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On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 08:24:44AM +1100, Jookia wrote:
> 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.

This would also be an interesting option; actually, I think things were like
that a long time ago... It would make sense to keep everything related to
the management of the store in /gnu, so that the complete store could
be copied easily.

Maybe we should make the new convention that localstatedit should default to
/gnu; this cannot be against GNU standards, at least not in spirit :-)

Andreas