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List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org X-Migadu-Country: US X-Migadu-Flow: FLOW_IN X-Migadu-Queue-Id: CB26019FE9 X-Migadu-Scanner: mx12.migadu.com X-Migadu-Spam-Score: -10.11 X-Spam-Score: -10.11 X-TUID: kRHWpD+lgC/s Hi, Ricardo Wurmus skribis: > Ludovic Court=C3=A8s 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=3D/. Good point. Maybe we should in fact change the default prefix instead of just localstatedir and sysconfdir? Ludo=E2=80=99.