From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: How to deal with system-wide state databases Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2016 15:16:47 +0200 Message-ID: <87mvmtyyio.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87porppewk.fsf@gnu.org> 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]:53715) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bBMIx-0003rL-BI for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Jun 2016 09:16:58 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bBMIt-0003o2-4R for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Jun 2016 09:16:54 -0400 Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:57965) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bBMIt-0003mq-16 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Jun 2016 09:16:51 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87porppewk.fsf@gnu.org> (Roel Janssen's message of "Fri, 10 Jun 2016 11:32:59 +0200") 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: Roel Janssen Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Hello! Roel Janssen skribis: > How should we deal with mechanisms like this? Should I change the scroll= keeper > database directory per program, so in this case it becomes: > /gnu/store/xgbvyqs...-gparted-0.26.0/var/lib/scrollkeeper > > Or can we deal with this in a more cross-package way? Maybe we could add a profile hook to =E2=80=98%default-profile-hooks=E2=80= =99 in (guix profiles)? Ludo=E2=80=99.