Re: [PATCH] doc: Explain --localstatedir some more.

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Andreas Enge <address@hidden> writes:

> On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 08:24:44AM +1100, Jookia wrote:
>> As much as that's appealing, this breaks GNU conventions. I think it'd be 
>> nice
>> to put the state in the store directory by default since it seems the two are
>> related, though this might not be the case in other situations.
>
> This would also be an interesting option; actually, I think things were like
> that a long time ago... It would make sense to keep everything related to
> the management of the store in /gnu, so that the complete store could
> be copied easily.
>
> Maybe we should make the new convention that localstatedit should default to
> /gnu; this cannot be against GNU standards, at least not in spirit :-)

I’d like to keep all things in /gnu, but note that we also have
/etc/guix/acl and possibly other files that are distributed across the
filesystem.

~~ Ricardo