unofficial mirror of guix-devel@gnu.org 
 help / color / mirror / code / Atom feed
From: Konrad Hinsen <konrad.hinsen@fastmail.net>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>, "Julien Lepiller" <julien@lepiller.eu>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Updates on the guix home manager
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2019 11:41:55 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1v9tgpva4.fsf@fastmail.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k19ynn50.fsf@gnu.org>

Hi everyone,

>> A new "guix home" subcommand, with support for "guix home build" (that
>> builds a home configuration), "guix home reconfigure" (that builds and
>> ...
>
> Nice!

+1

> Anyway, Guix Home is really cool and it’d be great to provide something
> along these lines out-of-the-box with Guix.  I still find the read-only
> home approach somewhat too radical, but maybe I’m not daring enough.
> ;-)

Home is used for too many things: configuration, personal data storage,
caching in hidden subdirectories, etc. It will take time to sort this
out, but I like the direction, including read-only for the configuration
stuff.

It's probably worth coordinating with other ideas for renovating home,
such as

  https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=systemd-homed

Different objectives, but also interesting ones, and it would be nice if
all that would end up being compatible.

Cheers,
  Konrad.

      reply	other threads:[~2019-09-25  9:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-09-19 21:22 Updates on the guix home manager Julien Lepiller
2019-09-20  9:31 ` Thorsten Wilms
2019-09-20 14:39   ` Julien Lepiller
2019-09-20 11:50 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2019-09-24  7:56 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-09-25  9:41   ` Konrad Hinsen [this message]

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

  List information: https://guix.gnu.org/

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=m1v9tgpva4.fsf@fastmail.net \
    --to=konrad.hinsen@fastmail.net \
    --cc=guix-devel@gnu.org \
    --cc=julien@lepiller.eu \
    --cc=ludo@gnu.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this public inbox

	https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git

This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).