Re: Changing the defaults for --localstatedir and --sysconfdir?

[Andreas Enge]

Am Thu, May 02, 2024 at 11:00:15AM +0200 schrieb Ludovic Courtès:
> That was 8 years ago though (eight!).  At this point I think defaulting
> to /var and /etc would do more good than harm.
> What do others think?

I have always been in favour of /var and /etc as defaults, and
unsurprisingly still am. That would make the "technical" default coincide
with the "social" default.

Another option discussed at the time, but which would require to start from
scratch in a sense, is to have everything Guix related under /gnu. I have
always found it weird that the database registering the contents of
/gnu/store was not close to /gnu/store; by moving it into /gnu, one could
delete/backup/restore the directory easily.

Andreas