Hi Janneke, thank you for the report. I already pointed out this at https://issues.guix.gnu.org/60521 . there was a fix that was removed by a misunderstanding on the requirements of the service since the code contradicts documentation as you pointed out . It should be pretty easy to apply the fix from 60521.

Thank you

Giacomo

Il 31 gennaio 2024 13:17:25 CET, Janneke Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org> ha scritto:
>Hi,
>
>When I follow the documentation, and have
>
>    dotfiles/guix/.config/guix/channels.scm
>
>that shows suing tree -a ./dotfiles
>
>    dotfiles
>    └── guix
>        └── .config
>            └── guix
>                └── channels.scm
>
>similar to the documentaion, and using
>
>    (service home-dotfiles-service-type
>             (home-dotfiles-configuration
>               (directories (list "./dotfiles"))))
>
>creates
>
>    ~/guix/.config/guix/channels.scm
>
>an extra toplevel `guix" directory!
>
>What gives?
>
>Greetings,
>Janneke
>
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