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From: Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz>
To: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>,
	Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Managing user environments
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2019 10:46:46 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lfwf3o5l.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h8747rou.fsf@elephly.net>

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This looks fantastic!

I can see quite some overlap with Shepherd User Services:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2019-02/msg00128.html

What do you think?

If we implement shepherd user services, we would essentially be able to
declare most (all?) of a user home folder.

The main difference I can see with Julien's approach is that the
declarativeness is not enforced since home would not be read-only.
Home would be initialized declaratively, but then the user or any
program is able to overwrite files in home.  Which may or may not be the
desired behaviour.

Cheers!

-- 
Pierre Neidhardt
https://ambrevar.xyz/

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  reply	other threads:[~2019-07-30  8:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-07-29 15:13 Managing user environments Julien Lepiller
2019-07-29 16:04 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-07-30  8:46   ` Pierre Neidhardt [this message]
2019-07-30  9:32     ` Ricardo Wurmus

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