From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] gnu: connman: Use localstatedir outside of store. Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2016 12:27:18 +0100 Message-ID: <87lgwpndk9.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20161109212245.23531-1-sleep_walker@gnu.org> <20161110075515.GG2348@macbook42.flashner.co.il> <5825D7E0.3090601@crazy-compilers.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44212) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c5WSx-0005ZB-K3 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Nov 2016 06:27:24 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c5WSu-0002eM-Gf for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Nov 2016 06:27:23 -0500 In-Reply-To: <5825D7E0.3090601@crazy-compilers.com> (Hartmut Goebel's message of "Fri, 11 Nov 2016 15:38:24 +0100") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Hartmut Goebel Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Hartmut Goebel skribis: > Am 10.11.2016 um 08:55 schrieb Efraim Flashner: >> > + ;; location for daemon state files and internal configur= ation >> > + ;; needs to be writeable > > I wonder if this shouldn't be the default for gnu-build-system? It is tempting, yes. However, I suspect a number of packages would gratuitously fail upon =E2=80=98make install=E2=80=99 simply because they=E2=80=99d do =E2=80=9Cmk= dir /var=E2=80=9D for no good reason. Would be worth trying. Ludo=E2=80=99.