Ludovic Courtès writes: > Christopher Allan Webber <cweb...@dustycloud.org> skribis: > >> Every now and then I rebuild Guix and hit the problem where I run >> ./configure and then I am reminded that I need to instead do: >> >> ./configure --localstatedir=/var >> >> IIRC this is because of GNU standards about default paths and pretty >> much no other reason that we don't default to /var. But I think Guix is >> a special case. >> >> Should we ask maybe for an exception? > > No need to ask. :-) > >> There's no reason for users to bump into this. It's annoying even for >> me, and at least I know (or think I do) why. > > I think it would be surprising to users who install from source if > localstatedir is not under $prefix by default (someone who wants to > install to /opt/foo would be surprised to find out that some files go to > /var instead of /opt/foo/var.) > > There’s also the question of “make dist”, which should still DTRT. > > We could have $prefix default to /… but that’s not quite what one might > expect either. > > I think the current situation is a good middle ground, even though I can > also sympathize with your frustration. > > Thoughts? > > It’s weird how a simple question like this can be seemingly this complex > to address. :-) > > Ludo’.
Okay! If you feel confident it's the right thing, then I'm not going to argue about it. The warning helps... it's just a little bit annoying :)
