<div dir="ltr">If this is a system level daemon that's being started, then it seems to me that it should be storing its data in a system level location. /opt/local/var/ipfs or /opt/local/var/lib/ipfs or /opt/local/var/spool/ipfs depending on various preferences.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 4, 2017 at 2:41 PM, db <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:iamsudo@gmail.com" target="_blank">iamsudo@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On 4 Aug 2017, at 16:05, Joshua Root <<a href="mailto:jmr@macports.org">jmr@macports.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> Should be in $user_home (if it could be determined, which is not guaranteed). But why do you need it? The user installing the port is not necessarily the one that will use it.<br>
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</span>That worked, thanks. I used it for an env var's default value in ipfs' startup item (#54566). I don't know if we could pass a different value on install or load, for that matter. Everything's fine as in works_for_me. How come schraderbräu has it and macports not?</blockquote></div><br></div>