From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
To: Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc: Explain --localstatedir some more.
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2016 07:50:40 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a8m6x1vj.fsf@elephly.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160309213959.GA27791@solar>
Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> writes:
> 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 :-)
I’d like to keep all things in /gnu, but note that we also have
/etc/guix/acl and possibly other files that are distributed across the
filesystem.
~~ Ricardo
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-09 20:35 [PATCH] doc: Explain --localstatedir some more Jookia
2016-03-09 21:07 ` Andreas Enge
2016-03-09 21:24 ` Jookia
2016-03-09 21:39 ` Andreas Enge
2016-03-10 6:50 ` Ricardo Wurmus [this message]
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