by default in /var and not in /usr/var/ ?

[linuxcbon linuxcbon]

On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 3:38 PM, Simon McVittie
<simon.mcvittie at collabora.co.uk> wrote:
> The GNU Coding Standards, and the defaults in Autoconf that result from
> those standards, make --localstatedir (and all other configurable
> directories) default to a path below --prefix. This is not something
> that D-Bus configures; we just use it.

  you mean, GNU standard is /usr/var/ and not /var/ ?
Where did you get that from ? /usr/var/ has never been standard. It's
/var/ the standard.