Re: Return back original implementation for text-config serialization

[Xinglu Chen]

Hi,

Andrew schrieb am Donnerstag der 20. Januar 2022 um 16:20 +03:

>>> 2. Looks strange implementation-wise.
>>>
>>> If we want to insert the file path to file-like object for new-style
>>> text-config internally we do something like
>>>
>>> (mixed-text-file ...
>>>  "source \" "\n"
>>>  #~(read-everything-from-file
>>>     #$(computed-file "unecessary-file-name"
>>>        #~#$(local-file "blabla.sh"))))
>>
>> When would one write such a thing?
>
> I have very same question :)
>
> It's what happens internally in current implementation, something like
> that goes to home-files-service-type.

From what I can tell, ‘home-files-service-type’ doesn’t seem to have
anything like that.  I am not able to find any usages for
‘computed-file’ in Guix Home services either.  I am missing something?

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