I said I would include Janneke but obviously I didn't :) . Sorry for the noise

Hi Ludo',

On 2/7/24 23:17, Ludovic Courtès wrote:

Hi!

Oops, my sincere apologies if I ended up “fixing” something that was in
fact intentional, effectively breaking it.

Don't worry I think there's been a misunderstanding from the beginning and I was not able to explain myself . Sh*t happens :)

Should we just adjust the manual to match
this?

I think that doing so would defeat the original purpose of supporting the de facto standard used by Stow users

Or the other way around, at the cost of breaking user config?

This is really about what one means by breaking, we already received a bug report at https://issues.guix.gnu.org/68848 which in my opinion indicates that we give some expectations through the manual, which is not met by the code (I'm adding Janneke to this thread so that we are all aligned and can reach consensus).

 Or adding an option to choose between these two layouts?

This is the best option forward, in my opinion. It is flexible and allows for a both for the current simplified layout (without the per-application layer of directories typical of Stow) and the Stow default one.

If there's consensus my next steps would be:

1. Apply Janneke's stylistic suggestion at https://issues.guix.gnu.org/68857 allowing us to close https://issues.guix.gnu.org/68848 and align the code with the manual

2. Add a layout field to home-dotfiles-configuration that allows for the simplified layout described by Ludo' in his last email, something like this

$ guix shell tree -- tree -a dot-files/
dot-files/
├── .dico
├── .gitconfig
├── .gnupg
│   ├── dirmngr.conf
│   ├── gpa.conf
│   ├── gpg.conf
│   └── .gpg-v21-migrated
├── .Xdefaults
└── .xsession

the default would be the current layout but this would allow for more flexibility in layouts in the future.

3. Possibly add an included-applications (the name is just a proposal) to support Sergey's use case of selecting a subset of application dotfiles to provision in the user's home

what do you think about this plan?

thank you all for your help and your time

giacomo