Re: The tricky case of "--localstatedir=/var"

[Tobias Geerinckx-Rice]

On 16 February 2016 at 17:04, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Hullo Guix,
>
> On 16 February 2016 at 14:57, Jookia <address@hidden> wrote:
>> <snip>
>>
>> * Put the localstatedir in /gnu.
>>
>> This is actually what Nix does, so I'm a little surprised as to why Guix has
>> deviated from this practice. This will require updating all the patches to 
>> use
>> /gnu/var as the localstatedir. What you get from this is the idea that the 
>> state
>> is linked with the store (which it is!) and more importantly, comes in to the
>> territory of GNU.
>
> As a newcomer from a certain Nix-based OS, /var/gnu surprised me.

s/gnu/guix/, of course. But even non-GuixSD systems have /gnu, so it
can't be for them.

> Store state and integrity are so closely tied to the sqlite database
> that it's strange to see them so far apart. I assume there are other
> reasons for using /var, and I assume these are reasons are logs.
> (Disregarding FHS traditionalism as an option for everyone's sanity.)
>
> I actually searched for a discussion about this in Guix's past, but
> found none. I await the link of loving correction.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> T G-R