Re: It's time to build "guix deploy"

[Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12@thebird.nl>]

On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 04:35:47PM +0100, Giovanni Biscuolo wrote:
> the very reason I'm here is I don't want to use *anymore* *any* of them,
> with all due _respect_ for the venerable projects, your included!

I did not intend to push my 'solution'. I want to get away from that
too!

> I've used Puppet and some Ansible, studied CFengine and Salt
> Stack... then discovered Nix and rigth next Guix: what else? :-)
> 
> [...]
> 
> > and the emacs files sit in a git directory in the same tree and get
> > copied across running 'deploy emacs.yaml'.
> 
> yes, we still miss "stateless user services config" (Pierre Neidhardt
> wrote an interesting summary here
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2019-02/msg00128.html)
> 
> I'd like to be able to declaratively manage a *stateless* .config/
> instead of managing configuration with dotfiles [2]
> 
> anyway Guix is _perfect_ to declare and deploy system services, what we
> miss is a little more abstraction (from operating-system to
> infrastructure?) and remote control of "guix system reconfigure"
> 
> am I missing something?

I think you misread my E-mail. No doubt my fault ;).

Pj.