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From: Attila Lendvai <attila@lendvai.name>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: Richard Sent <richard@freakingpenguin.com>, guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Changing the defaults for --localstatedir and --sysconfdir?
Date: Thu, 02 May 2024 09:11:24 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <WNobD35w0GQwuuUpIQCAHb_dSNmUMBakxHIipZ6BuoToEuu0KNsCK6EiF6182JEofB8Y-xmzPgTMa8oAFD6m6D5-jHw2-F7hhPuf_bJ6-bI=@lendvai.name> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sez0zizk.fsf@gnu.org>

> What do others think?

i don't really understand all the consequences of this choice... but as a newcomer it surely was strange that i have to use a special incantation that i need to remember, and is added to the documentation, and is explained repeatedly on IRC... instead of making it the default.

good defaults are important. and it's better if the default value causes the least surprise to the ones who know the least.

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  reply	other threads:[~2024-05-02  9:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-05-01 20:49 Changing the defaults for --localstatedir and --sysconfdir? Richard Sent
2024-05-02  9:00 ` Ludovic Courtès
2024-05-02  9:11   ` Attila Lendvai [this message]
2024-05-02 23:23     ` Romain
2024-05-02 11:31   ` Janneke Nieuwenhuizen
2024-05-02 18:14     ` Vagrant Cascadian via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
2024-05-02 12:58   ` Andreas Enge
2024-05-02 16:37     ` Efraim Flashner
2024-05-06 10:06       ` Ludovic Courtès
2024-05-02 16:35   ` Efraim Flashner
2024-06-07 12:54     ` Felix Lechner via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
2024-06-09  0:58       ` Maxim Cournoyer
2024-05-03 10:10   ` Ricardo Wurmus
2024-05-06 10:08     ` Ludovic Courtès
2024-05-07 20:07   ` Simon Tournier

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