Hullo Guix, On 16 February 2016 at 14:57, Jookia <166...@gmail.com> 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. 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
