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

[Ludovic Courtès]

Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il> skribis:

> 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.

Maybe, but that’s a much too complicated change…

Ludo’.