On Thu, Sep 07, 2017 at 12:02:43PM -0500, Christopher Allan Webber wrote: > Every now and then I rebuild Guix and hit the problem where I run > ./configure and then I am reminded that I need to instead do: > > ./configure --localstatedir=/var > > IIRC this is because of GNU standards about default paths and pretty > much no other reason that we don't default to /var. But I think Guix is > a special case. > > Should we ask maybe for an exception? There's no reason for users to > bump into this. It's annoying even for me, and at least I know (or > think I do) why. > > - Chris >
I've made sure to also pass --sysconfdir=/etc so that /etc/guix/acl doesn't end up in /usr/local/etc/guix/acl, leading to a split between `guix foo' and './pre-inst-env guix foo'. -- Efraim Flashner <efr...@flashner.co.il> אפרים פלשנר GPG key = A28B F40C 3E55 1372 662D 14F7 41AA E7DC CA3D 8351 Confidentiality cannot be guaranteed on emails sent or received unencrypted
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