Re: Changing the defaults for --localstatedir and --sysconfdir?

[Efraim Flashner]

On Thu, May 02, 2024 at 02:58:39PM +0200, Andreas Enge wrote:
> Am Thu, May 02, 2024 at 11:00:15AM +0200 schrieb Ludovic Courtès:
> > That was 8 years ago though (eight!).  At this point I think defaulting
> > to /var and /etc would do more good than harm.
> > What do others think?
> 
> I have always been in favour of /var and /etc as defaults, and
> unsurprisingly still am. That would make the "technical" default coincide
> with the "social" default.
> 
> Another option discussed at the time, but which would require to start from
> scratch in a sense, is to have everything Guix related under /gnu. I have
> always found it weird that the database registering the contents of
> /gnu/store was not close to /gnu/store; by moving it into /gnu, one could
> delete/backup/restore the directory easily.

It certainly would be nice to have everything Guix related under /gnu,
then we could also have the option of giving it its own btrfs subvolume.

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