From: Xinglu Chen <public@yoctocell.xyz>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>, "Andrew Tropin" <andrew@trop.in>
Cc: 52808@debbugs.gnu.org, Nick Zalutskiy <nick@const.fun>
Subject: bug#52808: Guix home should not assume that all targets are dot files
Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2022 13:58:13 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <875yppzfa2.fsf@yoctocell.xyz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87o83t9mf8.fsf@gnu.org>
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Hi,
Ludovic schrieb am Sonntag der 30. Januar 2022 um 18:13 +01:
> I’d expect ‘home-files-service-type’ to do just that: add files to the
> home directory, without trying to be smart.
>
> Would it make sense to distinguish between ‘home-files’ and (say)
> ‘home-xdg-configuration-files’?
What about $XDG_DATA_HOME, or any other standard $XDG_* variable? :-)
> The latter would copy files to $XDG_CONFIG_DIR at activation time,
> whereas the former would just copy them to $HOME.
When you say “copy”, you mean symlinking, right? It would also be nice
to have a service which copies (cp) a file during activation and maybe
sets up different permissions for the file, e.g., executable.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-02-08 15:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-12-26 17:17 bug#52808: Guix home should not assume that all targets are dot files Nick Zalutskiy
2022-01-28 10:51 ` Andrew Tropin
2022-01-28 13:33 ` Nick Zalutskiy
2022-01-28 15:22 ` Andrew Tropin
2022-01-30 17:13 ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-02-02 8:10 ` Andrew Tropin
2022-02-08 9:46 ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-02-11 15:52 ` Andrew Tropin
2022-02-26 7:13 ` Andrew Tropin
2022-03-05 22:44 ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-03-09 4:26 ` Andrew Tropin
2022-03-10 10:56 ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-03-11 7:41 ` Andrew Tropin
2022-03-20 18:07 ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-02-08 12:58 ` Xinglu Chen [this message]
2022-02-10 20:32 ` Ludovic Courtès
[not found] ` <handler.52808.D52808.16477996643062.notifdone@debbugs.gnu.org>
2022-03-20 21:00 ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-03-28 9:17 ` Andrew Tropin
2022-03-29 9:51 ` Andrew Tropin
2022-04-10 20:52 ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-03-29 10:24 ` Andrew Tropin
2022-03-30 19:51 ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-04-08 18:18 ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-04-09 14:28 ` Andrew Tropin
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