Hi, Andrew Tropin <[email protected]> skribis:
>>> You can elaborate more on what you try to achieve and I can try to give >>> you a recommendation how to implement it. >> >> 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’? > > Yep, I can do that, actually, it will be even better for the purpose I > originally had. I'll make home-files to store files as it is and > symlink manager not to add leading dots and a separate folder for > xdg configs. Neat. > Ludo, Nick, what do you think about following names? > ~/.guix-home/home-dir-files/ > ~/.guix-home/xdg-config-dir-files/ I’d make it ‘…/home-files’ and ‘…/xdg-configuration-files’, but that’s a detail. >> I’d also suggest removing special handling of HOME/files in >> symlink-manager.scm. Relations between the various components of Guix >> Home should preferably be made explicit via service extensions, and not >> implicit through conventions like this ‘files’ sub-directory. >> >> Thoughts? > > Unfortunatelly, I don't know how to implement polymorphic behavior the > other way with current extension mechanism, so I would prefer to keep > this relation implicit, I’m not sure I follow but maybe I should try by myself to get a better understanding. Thanks for your feedback! Ludo’.
