GNU bug report logs - #52808
Guix home should not assume that all targets are dot files

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Message #29 received at 52808 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: Xinglu Chen <public <at> yoctocell.xyz>
Cc: 52808 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Nick Zalutskiy <nick <at> const.fun>,
 Andrew Tropin <andrew <at> trop.in>
Subject: Re: bug#52808: Guix home should not assume that all targets are dot
 files
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2022 21:32:11 +0100

Hi,

Xinglu Chen <public <at> yoctocell.xyz> skribis:

> Ludovic schrieb am Sonntag der 30. Januar 2022 um 18:13 +01:
>
>> I’d expect ‘home-files-service-type’ to do just that: add files to the
>> home directory, without trying to be smart.
>>
>> Would it make sense to distinguish between ‘home-files’ and (say)
>> ‘home-xdg-configuration-files’?
>
> What about $XDG_DATA_HOME, or any other standard $XDG_* variable?  :-)

Hmm I don’t know?  :-)

>> The latter would copy files to $XDG_CONFIG_DIR at activation time,
>> whereas the former would just copy them to $HOME.
>
> When you say “copy”, you mean symlinking, right? 

Right.

> It would also be nice to have a service which copies (cp) a file
> during activation and maybe sets up different permissions for the
> file, e.g., executable.

Yes.

Ludo’.

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