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Subject: Re: The tricky case of "--localstatedir=/var"
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Jookia <166291@gmail.com> skribis:

> On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 11:11:40PM +0100, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s wrote:
>> However, for the purpose of avoiding bad surprises (configuring Guix
>> with the wrong localstatedir), I thought we could have a =E2=80=98config=
ure=E2=80=99
>> check that would compare the chosen localstatedir with the current
>> installation=E2=80=99s localstatedir, and bail out if they don=E2=80=99t=
 match.
>
>> WDYT?
>
> I think that'd be fantastic, though I'm not sure this would work too well=
 if
> you're planning to boostrap. I also submitted some documentation as a pat=
ch
> which might help.

Sorry for being slightly disorganized, but could you give me the link to
that patch?  :-)

> Perhaps it might make sense to make it a variable that needs to be
> explicitly set?

Could you explain how that would work?  Not sure what variable we=E2=80=99re
talking about.

Thanks,
Ludo=E2=80=99.