Re: The tricky case of "--localstatedir=/var"

[Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <tobias.geerinckx.rice@gmail.com>]

Hullo Guix,

On 16 February 2016 at 14:57, Jookia <166291@gmail.com> wrote:
> <snip>
>
> * Put the localstatedir in /gnu.
>
> This is actually what Nix does, so I'm a little surprised as to why Guix has
> deviated from this practice. This will require updating all the patches to use
> /gnu/var as the localstatedir. What you get from this is the idea that the state
> is linked with the store (which it is!) and more importantly, comes in to the
> territory of GNU.

As a newcomer from a certain Nix-based OS, /var/gnu surprised me.
Store state and integrity are so closely tied to the sqlite database
that it's strange to see them so far apart. I assume there are other
reasons for using /var, and I assume these are reasons are logs.
(Disregarding FHS traditionalism as an option for everyone's sanity.)

I actually searched for a discussion about this in Guix's past, but
found none. I await the link of loving correction.

Kind regards,

T G-R