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

[Janneke Nieuwenhuizen]

Ludovic Courtès writes:

> Richard Sent <richard@freakingpenguin.com> skribis:
>
>> As everyone who's built Guix from source knows, when running ./configure
>> on a system with an existing Guix installation you must remember to
>> specify --localstatedir=/var and --sysconfdir=/etc. I think we should
>> consider whether those variables should default to those values.
>
> I think it would make sense.
>
> Before I advocated that we should preferably stick to the GNU standards
> and have users make informed choices (that’s how we ended up with the
> ‘GUIX_CHECK_LOCALSTATEDIR’ macro that warns users but lets them
> explicitly pass ‘--localstatedir’.)
>
> 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?

It would be certainly convenient for many us but there should probably a
warning or an error? (cc: @Vagrant) when not on Guix System?

Greetings
Janneke

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