Hi Richard, Richard Sent <rich...@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? Thanks, Ludo’.
