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

[Jookia]

On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 11:11:40PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> However, for the purpose of avoiding bad surprises (configuring Guix
> with the wrong localstatedir), I thought we could have a ‘configure’
> check that would compare the chosen localstatedir with the current
> installation’s localstatedir, and bail out if they don’t 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 patch
which might help. Perhaps it might make sense to make it a variable that needs
to be explicitly set?

> Thanks, and apologies for the delay!
> 
> Ludo’.

Jookia.