Re: Guix Paths

2020-09-21 Thread 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

Re: Guix Paths

2020-09-21 Thread Buttery Pancake
> 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

Re: Guix Paths

2020-09-21 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
> I am wondering why Guix chose `/var/guix` path instead of > `/gnu/var/guix` or `/guix/var/guix`, as Nix uses `/nix/var/nix`? I think there’s no better reason than to say that /var is the conventional local state directory on GNU systems. It’s possible to use /gnu/var/guix, of course; on the

Re: Guix Paths

2020-09-21 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Pancake, On 2020-09-21 3:32, Buttery Pancake wrote: I was looking at a NixCon 2019 session called "Guix from the Nix Perspective" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDGzCXr6VYU). Bookmarked, thanks! I am wondering why Guix chose `/var/guix` path instead of `/gnu/var/guix` or `/guix/var/guix`,

Re: Guix Paths

2020-09-21 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello, On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 01:32:52AM +, Buttery Pancake wrote: > I am wondering why Guix chose `/var/guix` path instead of `/gnu/var/guix` or > `/ > guix/var/guix`, as Nix uses `/nix/var/nix`? > I do think that having only one or two directories under root, `/gnu` and/or > `/ > guix`

Guix Paths

2020-09-21 Thread Buttery Pancake
I was looking at a NixCon 2019 session called "Guix from the Nix Perspective" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDGzCXr6VYU). I am wondering why Guix chose `/var/guix` path instead of `/gnu/var/guix` or `/guix/var/guix`, as Nix uses `/nix/var/nix`? I do think that having only one or two