Re: Early feedback on Guix Home

[Xinglu Chen]

On Tue, Jun 29 2021, Ludovic Courtès wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Xinglu Chen <public@yoctocell.xyz> skribis:
>
>> On Wed, Jun 23 2021, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>>> Anyway, I backed up a bunch of files :-) and eventually gave it a try,
>>> just to notice that ‘guix home reconfigure’ was very careful about
>>> creating backups of any files it was going to overwrite, and it was also
>>> explicitly saying what it’s doing.  Perfect.
>>
>> Yeah, the output is pretty verbose, which is good if someone is just
>> getting started with it, but there should probably also be an option to
>> make it less verbose.
>
> Yes.  Also, we’ll have to make sure it’s internationalized.

How would we do that?  Would we use (G_ ...) or something?

>>> Possible actions:
>>>
>>>   1. Provide a ‘guix home init’ command (or similar) that creates an
>>>      initial Home config based on existing config.
>>
>> As Andrew mentioned, I recently added a ‘guix home import’ command, but
>> in only imports the installed user packages.  Creating configurations
>> for the packages would require a lot more work, unless we just read the
>> contents of ~/.bashrc and ~/.config/git/config and use
>> ‘home-generic-service’ and ‘plain-file’, instead of using
>> ‘home-bash-configuration’ and ‘home-git-configuration’.
>
> For SSH, generating something like:
>
>    (service home-ssh-service-type
>             (home-ssh-configuration
>              (toplevel-options
>               `((include . ,(local-file "ssh.conf"))))))
>
> should be doable.  But yeah, we’ll have to see on a case-by-case basis
> what can be achieved.

Yeah, I will look more into adding something like this.

signature.asc
Description: PGP signature