Re: Return back original implementation for text-config serialization

[Ludovic Courtès]

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’.