get user's home

[Stephen J. Butler]

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.

On Fri, Aug 4, 2017 at 2:41 PM, db <iamsudo at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 4 Aug 2017, at 16:05, Joshua Root <jmr at macports.org> wrote:
> > 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.
>
> 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?
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