From: Ryan Prior <rprior@protonmail.com>
To: Guix Devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Guix home migration
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2023 05:17:39 +0000 [thread overview]
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Migrating application settings to guix-home is something we want to make really approachable. Right now it's a relatively new and little-known feature but it could quickly become one of the top use cases for Guix, as a lot of people are interested in declarative application configuration.
A free software project to look at for ideas is Mackup: https://github.com/lra/mackup
Its strategy is unsophisticated: it moves your configuration files to a synchronized directory in Dropbox (or similar) and replaces it with a symlink. But it's got a great migration story: you run `mackup backup' and it scans for config files for hundreds of applications [1] and automatically migrates them.
Whether or not we would want the exact same experience, the overall vision of a single migration command that scans for dotfiles and adds them to your guix home is something we can aspire to.
[1]: https://github.com/lra/mackup/tree/master/mackup/applications
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2023-01-12 5:17 Ryan Prior [this message]
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