Re: Removing the need for ./configure --localstatedir=/var ?

[Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il>]

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On Thu, Sep 07, 2017 at 12:02:43PM -0500, Christopher Allan Webber wrote:
> Every now and then I rebuild Guix and hit the problem where I run
> ./configure and then I am reminded that I need to instead do:
> 
>   ./configure --localstatedir=/var
> 
> IIRC this is because of GNU standards about default paths and pretty
> much no other reason that we don't default to /var.  But I think Guix is
> a special case.
> 
> Should we ask maybe for an exception?  There's no reason for users to
> bump into this.  It's annoying even for me, and at least I know (or
> think I do) why.
> 
>  - Chris
> 

I've made sure to also pass --sysconfdir=/etc so that /etc/guix/acl
doesn't end up in /usr/local/etc/guix/acl, leading to a split between
`guix foo' and './pre-inst-env guix foo'.

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