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Re: Brain storming cool Guix features
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Joshua Branson |
Subject: |
Re: Brain storming cool Guix features |
Date: |
Sat, 05 Jan 2019 08:59:07 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1 (gnu/linux) |
Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> writes:
> Joshua Branson <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> I had some cool ideas/features for things that GuixSD could potentially
>> add, and I wanted to share. Are any of these possible?
>>
>> #+BEGIN_SRC scheme
>> (operating system
>> (keymap "dvorak")
>> ...)
>> #+END_SRC
>>
>> The above would make the bootloader, console, X, and wayland all use the
>> dvorak layout. That would be a nice feature! I currently use "dvorak",
>> and it's slightly annoying that grub uses qwerty. :(
>
> Same here. Some of this might be accomplished with a system service
> that extends configuration files with the required settings. Would you
> like to give this a try?
Yes I would! I will probably need some mentoring to figure it all out,
but I will take a go at it. I think I know how to go about trying it.
I'll get back to you next week, when I'll probably need some more
direction.
>
>> How about automatic updates? Since a guixSD user can always downgrade
>> to the previous version, it would be nice if it would automatically
>> update my user profile, root profile and reconfigure say once a week.
>>
>> #+BEGIN_SRC scheme
>> (operating system
>> (auto-upgrade #t)
>> (auto-upgrade-interval 'once-a-week)
>> ...)
>> #+END_SRC
>
> Cron jobs can be used here via the mcron service.
--
Joshua Branson
Sent from Emacs and Gnus
Re: Brain storming cool Guix features, znavko, 2019/01/04