Re: units_cur

[Ludovic Courtès]

Pierre Neidhardt <address@hidden> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Hmm, dunno.  Perhaps we could modify ‘units’ to look for
>> /var/run/units/currency.units first, and fall back to
>> /gnu/store/…-units/share/units/currency.units.
>>
>> We would also arrange for ‘units_cur’ to update the file in /var/run by
>> default.
>>
>> WDYT?
>
> That sounds reasonable to me.  What's the purpose of /var/run on GuixSD?
> How is it used?

On GNU/Linux /var/run is the standard location to store “state” files.
See ‘runstatedir’ in
<https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Directory-Variables.html>.

Ludo’.