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From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
Cc: Richard Sent <richard@freakingpenguin.com>,  guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Changing the defaults for --localstatedir and --sysconfdir?
Date: Mon, 06 May 2024 12:08:06 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877cg7l0c9.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r0ejkxza.fsf@elephly.net> (Ricardo Wurmus's message of "Fri, 03 May 2024 12:10:01 +0200")

Hi,

Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> At this point I think defaulting
>> to /var and /etc would do more good than harm.
>
> Are those the only defaults that should change?  These are the only ones
> we are actively using, but perhaps it would be confusing to have
> --prefix still point to /usr/local whereas --localstatedir and
> --sysconfdir point to something appropriate for --prefix=/.

Good point.  Maybe we should in fact change the default prefix instead
of just localstatedir and sysconfdir?

Ludo’.


  reply	other threads:[~2024-05-06 10:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-05-01 20:49 Changing the defaults for --localstatedir and --sysconfdir? Richard Sent
2024-05-02  9:00 ` Ludovic Courtès
2024-05-02  9:11   ` Attila Lendvai
2024-05-02 23:23     ` Romain
2024-05-02 11:31   ` Janneke Nieuwenhuizen
2024-05-02 18:14     ` Vagrant Cascadian via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
2024-05-02 12:58   ` Andreas Enge
2024-05-02 16:37     ` Efraim Flashner
2024-05-06 10:06       ` Ludovic Courtès
2024-05-02 16:35   ` Efraim Flashner
2024-06-07 12:54     ` Felix Lechner via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
2024-06-09  0:58       ` Maxim Cournoyer
2024-05-03 10:10   ` Ricardo Wurmus
2024-05-06 10:08     ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2024-05-07 20:07   ` Simon Tournier

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