Subject: bug#56610: Guix Home placing dotfiles in wrong directory.

From: Andrew Tropin <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2022 09:31:19 +0300

On 2022-07-17 03:07, Raghav Gururajan via Bug reports for wrote:

> Hello Guix,
>
> home-files-service-type is placing configuration files in `~/config/foo` 
> instead of `~/.config/foo`.
>
> For example, the following guix-home service should place the git 
> configuration in ~/.config/git`. But it creates a new directory 
> `~/config/git` and places the file there.

It's intended https://yhetil.org/guix-devel/[email-masked]/

Updates to the documentation is on the way:
https://yhetil.org/guix-patches/[email-masked]/

>
> (simple-service 'git-config
>                      home-files-service-type

In this case, it's better to use home-xdg-configuration-files instead of
home-files.

>                      (list
>                       `("config/git/config"
>                         ,(local-file
>                           (string-append (getenv "HOME")

Just a tip for finer reproducibility of the configuration: it's better
to avoid using environment variables, files outside of the project
directory and other thing, which make code impure/dependening on global
state.

>                                          "/dotfiles/git/config")))))
>
> It started happening recently, so will try to bisect.

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Best regards,
Andrew Tropin