From: Andrew Tropin <andrew@trop.in>
To: Nick Zalutskiy <nick@const.fun>, 52808@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#52808: Guix home should not assume that all targets are dot files
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2022 13:51:57 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bkzw2kvm.fsf@trop.in> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6050c325-9ae9-406a-97fe-91bdf9bcd12a@www.fastmail.com>
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On 2021-12-26 12:17, Nick Zalutskiy wrote:
> The following configuration results in a `~/.run` symlink being
> created. My expectation is that a `~/run` symlink is created
> instead. (ie. not a dotfile)
Some how I missed it and not documented home-files-service-type in the
manual, I'll add it soon. Thank you for mentioning it. It should break
this expectation :)
>> (home-environment
>> (services
>> (list (service
>> home-bash-service-type
>> (home-bash-configuration
>> (guix-defaults? #t)))
>> (simple-service 'my-files
>> home-files-service-type
>> `(("run" ,(local-file "run")))))))
>
> This applies to all other targets. My expectation is that the
> configuration should expect the exact target and not make an
> assumption that all targets are hidden files, since that allows for
> more utility:
>
>> (home-environment
>> (services
>> (list (service
>> home-bash-service-type
>> (home-bash-configuration
>> (guix-defaults? #t)))
>> (simple-service 'config-files
>> home-files-service-type
>> `(("run" ,(local-file "run"))
>> ("README.txt" ,(local-file "README.txt"))
>> (".config/guix/channels.scm" ,(local-file "config/guix
>> (".emacs.d/init.el" ,(local-file "emacs.d/init.el"))
>> (".vimrc" ,(local-file "vimrc"))
>> (".gitconfig" ,(local-file "gitconfig")))))))
>
> Thank you,
>
> -Nick
It's intentional and is a part of a design decision:
For example for ("config/guix/channels.scm" ,(local-file "./chans.scm"))
chans.scm goes not to ~/.config/guix/channels.scm, but to
$XDG_CONFIG_DIR/guix/channels.scm, which can be a different location
from ~/.config, absent dot should partially break this expectation.
It's a bad practice to use something without "config/..." prefix and
generally it should be avoided, it still possible to use something
different in rare use-cases, for example for zsh: ("zshenv"
,zshenv-file-like-here), because it's hard to implement the lookup for
initial configuration file other way for shells.
You can elaborate more on what you try to achieve and I can try to give
you a recommendation how to implement it.
--
Best regards,
Andrew Tropin
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-01-28 10:53 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 [this message]
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
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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