On 2022-02-05 12:09, Ludovic Courtès wrote:

> Hi!
>
> Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> skribis:
>
>> Pardon my ignorance about Guix Home, but couldn't we have configuration
>> as records by default, and the lower level, config stitching primitives
>> still available to hand craft strings that could be used as the value of
>> an 'extra-config' field, for example?
>>
>> It seems to me the use of records for configurations in Guix Home would
>> be the natural choice, as Guix System users are already familiar with
>> them and it leans to better discoverability/documentation.
>
> Guix Home uses records for configuration and the same service as Guix
> System, and I think it’s important that it remain this way for the
> reasons you give and also from a maintenance viewpoint.
>
> Ludo’.

I think I agree on that, probably home services and system services in
Guix proper should follow the same style.

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Best regards,
Andrew Tropin