From: Andrew Tropin <andrew@trop.in>
To: "Xinglu Chen" <public@yoctocell.xyz>, "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: Oleg Pykhalov <go.wigust@gmail.com>, 50873@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#50873] [PATCH 0/5] Fixes to ‘guix home import’
Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2021 09:31:37 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878ry8tmie.fsf@trop.in> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878ry96qn6.fsf@disroot.org>
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On 2021-10-31 18:38, Xinglu Chen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sun, Oct 31 2021, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>
>> Hi!
>>
>> Xinglu Chen <public@yoctocell.xyz> skribis:
>>
>>> guix home: import: Make the user to specify a destination directory.
>>> guix home: import: Allow multiple modules to be imported for each
>>> service.
>>> guix home: import: Fix module name for Bash service.
>>> guix home: import: Don’t use 'slurp-file-gexp'.
>>> guix home: import: Delete duplicate modules when importing.
>>> doc: Document the ‘guix home import’ subcommand.
>>> Add tests for ‘guix home import’.
>>> guix home: import: Call ‘local-file’ with ‘name’ argument.
>>
>> That’s a nice improvement. In the interest of moving forward, I applied
>> the whole series and followed up with a few changes:
>>
>> c4ac8cf4f6 doc: Mention 'guix home reconfigure' upfront.
>> 971a69d8e3 doc: Avoid misuse of @ref.
>> 7711a6c3f4 doc: Mention "guix home import" upfront.
>> 6f4ca78761 home: import: Avoid duplication of 'manifest->code'.
>> 96728c54df home: import: Factorize triplicated 'version-spec' procedure.
>> f3933ae40d home: import: Clarify "destination directory".
>> 341fba217f home: import: Compare procedures with 'eq?'.
>>
>> Part of it is about removing duplicated code, in particular
>> ‘manifest->code’. It’s important to factorize non-trivial code like
>> this.
>>
>> The last commits improve documentation so users learn about ‘guix home
>> import’ when they get started.
>
> Thanks for taking care of this!
>
>> It’s really nice to have this tool! I find it perhaps a bit confusing
>> to have to specify a target directory to ‘guix home import’; simply
>> trying to document it shows that it’s non-obvious.
>>
>> I wonder if the argument should be optional (in which case the files
>> wouldn’t be copied). But then people are likely to run into the
>> problems this addresses.
>
> Yeah, that could be a bit confusing for people.
>
>> Or perhaps it would be more consistent to have:
>>
>> guix home import ~/foo
>>
>> create ~/foo/config.scm, instead of printing it to stdout?
It's a good idea. home.scm or home-config.scm can be another option to
make it clearer that it's not a system config.
>>
>> The documentation would be clearer: “populate ~/foo with all the
>> configuration files of your home environment.” Thoughts?
>
> I originally made it to print to stdout because that’s what the ‘guix
> import’ commands do, but it could make sense to just populate a file
> directly. I don’t really have a strong opinion on this, so if nobody
> has any objections, I could send a patch for this. :-)
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Best regards,
Andrew Tropin
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Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-28 17:33 [bug#50873] [PATCH 0/5] Fixes to ‘guix home import’ Xinglu Chen
2021-09-28 17:35 ` [bug#50873] [PATCH 1/5] guix home: import: Make the user to specify a destination directory Xinglu Chen
2021-09-28 17:35 ` [bug#50873] [PATCH 2/5] guix home: import: Allow multiple modules to be imported for each service Xinglu Chen
2021-09-28 17:35 ` [bug#50873] [PATCH 3/5] guix home: import: Fix module name for Bash service Xinglu Chen
2021-09-28 17:36 ` [bug#50873] [PATCH 4/5] guix home: import: Delete duplicate modules when importing Xinglu Chen
2021-09-28 17:36 ` [bug#50873] [PATCH 5/5] doc: Document the ‘guix home import’ subcommand Xinglu Chen
2021-09-30 7:08 ` Andrew Tropin
2021-10-01 5:08 ` Xinglu Chen
2021-10-02 15:10 ` [bug#50873] [PATCH 0/5] Fixes to ‘guix home import’ Ludovic Courtès
2021-09-28 20:52 ` [bug#50873] [PATCH 0/2] Add pn Antero Mejr via Guix-patches via
2021-09-28 20:52 ` [bug#50873] [PATCH 1/2] gnu: Add libphonenumber Antero Mejr via Guix-patches via
2021-09-28 20:52 ` [bug#50873] [PATCH 2/2] gnu: Add pn Antero Mejr via Guix-patches via
2021-10-02 15:13 ` [bug#50873] [PATCH 0/5] Fixes to ‘guix home import’ Ludovic Courtès
2021-10-02 18:45 ` Xinglu Chen
2021-10-10 10:19 ` [bug#50873] [PATCH 0/7] " Xinglu Chen
2021-10-10 10:20 ` [bug#50873] [PATCH 1/7] guix home: import: Make the user to specify a destination directory Xinglu Chen
2021-10-13 9:24 ` [bug#50873] [PATCH 0/5] Fixes to ‘guix home import’ Ludovic Courtès
2021-10-29 13:37 ` Xinglu Chen
2021-10-10 10:20 ` [bug#50873] [PATCH 2/7] guix home: import: Allow multiple modules to be imported for each service Xinglu Chen
2021-10-10 10:20 ` [bug#50873] [PATCH 3/7] guix home: import: Fix module name for Bash service Xinglu Chen
2021-10-10 10:20 ` [bug#50873] [PATCH 4/7] guix home: import: Don’t use 'slurp-file-gexp' Xinglu Chen
2021-10-10 10:20 ` [bug#50873] [PATCH 5/7] guix home: import: Delete duplicate modules when importing Xinglu Chen
2021-10-10 10:20 ` [bug#50873] [PATCH 6/7] doc: Document the ‘guix home import’ subcommand Xinglu Chen
2021-10-10 10:20 ` [bug#50873] [PATCH 7/7] Add tests for ‘guix home import’ Xinglu Chen
2021-10-11 13:00 ` [bug#50873] [PATCH 0/5] Fixes to " Oleg Pykhalov
2021-10-13 9:25 ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-10-29 7:36 ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-10-29 13:47 ` Xinglu Chen
2021-10-30 14:17 ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-10-30 10:42 ` [bug#50873] [PATCH v3 0/8] " Xinglu Chen
2021-10-30 10:42 ` [bug#50873] [PATCH v3 1/8] guix home: import: Make the user to specify a destination directory Xinglu Chen
2021-10-30 14:22 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2021-10-30 10:42 ` [bug#50873] [PATCH v3 2/8] guix home: import: Allow multiple modules to be imported for each service Xinglu Chen
2021-10-30 10:42 ` [bug#50873] [PATCH v3 3/8] guix home: import: Fix module name for Bash service Xinglu Chen
2021-10-30 11:50 ` Julien Lepiller
2021-10-30 10:42 ` [bug#50873] [PATCH v3 4/8] guix home: import: Don’t use 'slurp-file-gexp' Xinglu Chen
2021-10-30 10:42 ` [bug#50873] [PATCH v3 5/8] guix home: import: Delete duplicate modules when importing Xinglu Chen
2021-10-30 10:42 ` [bug#50873] [PATCH v3 6/8] doc: Document the ‘guix home import’ subcommand Xinglu Chen
2021-10-30 10:42 ` [bug#50873] [PATCH v3 7/8] Add tests for ‘guix home import’ Xinglu Chen
2021-10-30 10:42 ` [bug#50873] [PATCH v3 8/8] guix home: import: Call ‘local-file’ with ‘name’ Xinglu Chen
2021-10-30 23:01 ` [bug#50873] [PATCH 0/5] Fixes to ‘guix home import’ Ludovic Courtès
2021-10-31 17:38 ` Xinglu Chen
2021-11-01 6:31 ` Andrew Tropin [this message]
2021-11-06 17:00 ` Ludovic Courtès
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