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Re: Stateful system directories
From: |
Ricardo Wurmus |
Subject: |
Re: Stateful system directories |
Date: |
Fri, 18 Oct 2019 19:11:29 +0200 |
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Giovanni Biscuolo <address@hidden> writes:
> Hi Efraim,
>
> Efraim Flashner <address@hidden> writes:
>
> [...]
>
>> I actually have the following snippet in my OS-config:
>>
>> ;; This directory shouldn't exist
>> (file-system
>> (device "none")
>> (mount-point "/var/cache/fontconfig")
>> (type "tmpfs")
>> (flags '(read-only))
>> (check? #f))
>
> yes! now that I read this I see how to workaround this class of
> problems, thanks!
>
> This snippet IMHO deserves a section in the Cookbook: would you please
> like to expand this in a proper section/subsection and submit a patch?
I prefer to keep workarounds for real bugs out of the Cookbook. For
both fontconfig and the gdm user account’s home directory we should push
a workaround very soon.
>> While we work on fixing these
>
> we in Guix you mean? shouldn't it be fixed upstream?
These problems don’t seem to happen on any distribution. We still have
to diagnose why that is.
--
Ricardo