From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Joshua Branson Subject: Brain storming cool Guix features Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2019 07:11:13 -0500 Message-ID: <87bm4wwrku.fsf@dismail.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:36070) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gfOJz-00046h-5Q for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Jan 2019 07:11:29 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gfOJv-00068w-7i for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Jan 2019 07:11:27 -0500 Received: from dismail.de ([78.46.223.134]:26330) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gfOJr-00066y-Nq for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Jan 2019 07:11:21 -0500 Received: from dismail.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dismail.de (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTP id d5c6ec4e for ; Fri, 4 Jan 2019 13:11:15 +0100 (CET) Received: from smtp1.dismail.de (10.240.26.11 [10.240.26.11]) by mx1.dismail.de (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTP id 6543a28a for ; Fri, 4 Jan 2019 13:11:15 +0100 (CET) Received: from smtp1.dismail.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp1.dismail.de (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTP id f9b4d3f1 for ; Fri, 4 Jan 2019 13:11:15 +0100 (CET) Received: by dismail.de (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTPSA id c48bf9ff (TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:256:NO) for ; Fri, 4 Jan 2019 13:11:15 +0100 (CET) List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: guix-devel@gnu.org I had some cool ideas/features for things that GuixSD could potentially add, and I wanted to share. Are any of these possible? #+BEGIN_SRC scheme (operating system (keymap "dvorak") ...) #+END_SRC The above would make the bootloader, console, X, and wayland all use the dvorak layout. That would be a nice feature! I currently use "dvorak", and it's slightly annoying that grub uses qwerty. :( #+BEGIN_SRC (user-account (name "joshua") (default-font "font-hack")) #+END_SRC The above would set a default font for the user joshua. How about a hook that stores the user's profile of packages in a manifest file after every package transaction (upgrade or downgrade)? #+BEGIN_SRC (user-account (name "joshua") (updates-in-manifest #t) (manifest-file "/etc/manifest.scm")) #+END_SRC How about automatic updates? Since a guixSD user can always downgrade to the previous version, it would be nice if it would automatically update my user profile, root profile and reconfigure say once a week. #+BEGIN_SRC scheme (operating system (auto-upgrade #t) (auto-upgrade-interval 'once-a-week) ...) #+END_SRC -- Joshua Branson Sent from Emacs and Gnus