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diff --git a/guix/ui.scm b/guix/ui.scm
index e7cb40927b..edd04daa81 100644
--- a/guix/ui.scm
+++ b/guix/ui.scm
@@ -775,9 +775,9 @@ replacement if PORT is not Unicode-capable."
(($ <location> file line column)
(format #f "~a:~a:~a" file line column))))
-(define (config-directory)
+(define* (config-directory #:key (ensure? #t))
"Return the name of the configuration directory, after making sure that it
-exists. Honor the XDG specs,
+exists if ENSURE? is true. Honor the XDG specs,
<http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html>."
(let ((dir (and=> (or (getenv "XDG_CONFIG_HOME")
(and=> (getenv "HOME")
@@ -785,7 +785,8 @@ exists. Honor the XDG specs,
(cut string-append <> "/guix"))))
(catch 'system-error
(lambda ()
- (mkdir-p dir)
+ (when ensure?
+ (mkdir-p dir))
dir)
(lambda args
(let ((err (system-error-errno args)))