Ludovic Courtès writes: > 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?
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 -- Janneke Nieuwenhuizen <jann...@gnu.org> | GNU LilyPond https://LilyPond.org Freelance IT https://www.JoyOfSource.com | Avatar® https://AvatarAcademy.com
