Re: Guix Home upstreaming plan

["Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>]

Hi,

Xinglu Chen <public@yoctocell.xyz> skribis:

> On Fri, Apr 30 2021, Ludovic Courtès wrote:

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>> Since this kind of tool is rather unusual (there’s no real equivalent
>> I’m aware of in other distros)
>
> Nix Home Manager[2] is very similar to Guix Home, it allows for the same
> kind of declarative configuration as Guix Home, but using Nix.  I have
> been using and hacking on Guix Home on NixOS and it’s getting closer to
> replacing Nix Home Manager for me. :)

Ah sure, I’ve heard about this one.  By “other distros” I really meant
the “traditional” distros.  :-)

>> I think the manual will have to carefully explain what problems this
>> solves and explain why someone would want to use it.  For example, I
>> think the term “home environment” should be defined upfront (I’d
>> summarize it as user configuration files + user services, from my
>> reading.)
>
> Plus user packages and state management, e.g. automatically cloning Git
> repositories the user has declared in their config.scm, or periodically
> rsync’ing some files with a remote host.

Right!

>> If people agree, I think we could aim for merging it in the next Guix
>> release, which would leave us a few months.
>
> To clarify, do you mean v1.3.0 or v1.4.0 (or whatever it’s going to be
> called)?  IIUC v1.3.0 is going to be released in a few weeks (rc1 was
> just announced), that might not be enough time for merging Guix Home as
> the API for some of the core services are still subject to change.  WDYT
> Andrew?

I meant 1.4.0 (or whatever it’ll be called).

Thanks!

Ludo’.