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

From: Oleg Pykhalov <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2022 11:34:44 +0300

Hi,

Raghav Gururajan via Bug reports for GNU Guix <[email-masked]> writes:

> 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.
>
>     (simple-service 'git-config
>                     home-files-service-type
>                     (list
>                      `("config/git/config"
>                        ,(local-file
>                          (string-append (getenv "HOME")
>                                         "/dotfiles/git/config")))))
>
> It started happening recently, so will try to bisect.

It's not a bug, use ‘`(".config/git/config" ,(local-file ...))’.

I'll close the issue if you don't mind.

Oleg.