Re: Guix Paths

[Tobias Geerinckx-Rice]

Hi!

On 2020-09-21 16:45, Buttery Pancake wrote:
> > which need to be user-writable, whereas the rest of /gnu only need to 
> > be
> > writable by the daemon. This means that we end up mounting the same
> > directories more than once with different permissions.
>
> Yes. As default, wouldn't it be better to use `/guix/guix-var-stuff`
> instead of `/var/guix/guix-var-stuff`? Also, bringing
> `/run/guix-other-stuff` under `/guix/guix-other-stuff`.

/run is ephemeral: it is required to be a tmpfs on ‘modern’ system(d)s, 
and to be at least emptied at boot on others.  Thus nothing in it should 
ever be

> backed-up, snap-shot, [or] mounted-separately [more than it already is 
> today.]

As for

> won't interfere with other stuffs on file-system (like ever).

I don't think it interferes, does it?  How?

I think adding yet another non-standard / subdirectory should be done 
only for very good reason.  /gnu has it, so would moving to /gnu/db/, 
but I don't see a case for the others to be moved.

Kind regards,

T G-R

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