From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Konrad Hinsen Subject: Re: Updates on the guix home manager Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2019 11:41:55 +0200 Message-ID: References: <20190919232257.671511bb@sybil.lepiller.eu> <87k19ynn50.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:34549) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iD3o9-0002CX-W8 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Sep 2019 05:42:03 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iD3o8-0004dH-QT for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Sep 2019 05:42:01 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87k19ynn50.fsf@gnu.org> 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: Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= , Julien Lepiller Cc: guix-devel@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=E2=80=99d be great to provide som= ething > along these lines out-of-the-box with Guix. I still find the read-only > home approach somewhat too radical, but maybe I=E2=80=99m not daring enou= gh. > ;-) 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=3Dnews_item&px=3Dsystemd-homed Different objectives, but also interesting ones, and it would be nice if all that would end up being compatible. Cheers, Konrad.