Hi, Xinglu Chen <[email protected]> skribis:
> On Fri, Apr 30 2021, Ludovic Courtès wrote: [...] >> Since this kind of tool is rather unusual (there’s no real equivalent >> I’m aware of in other distros) > > Nix Home Manager[2] is very similar to Guix Home, it allows for the same > kind of declarative configuration as Guix Home, but using Nix. I have > been using and hacking on Guix Home on NixOS and it’s getting closer to > replacing Nix Home Manager for me. :) Ah sure, I’ve heard about this one. By “other distros” I really meant the “traditional” distros. :-) >> I think the manual will have to carefully explain what problems this >> solves and explain why someone would want to use it. For example, I >> think the term “home environment” should be defined upfront (I’d >> summarize it as user configuration files + user services, from my >> reading.) > > Plus user packages and state management, e.g. automatically cloning Git > repositories the user has declared in their config.scm, or periodically > rsync’ing some files with a remote host. Right! >> If people agree, I think we could aim for merging it in the next Guix >> release, which would leave us a few months. > > To clarify, do you mean v1.3.0 or v1.4.0 (or whatever it’s going to be > called)? IIUC v1.3.0 is going to be released in a few weeks (rc1 was > just announced), that might not be enough time for merging Guix Home as > the API for some of the core services are still subject to change. WDYT > Andrew? I meant 1.4.0 (or whatever it’ll be called). Thanks! Ludo’.
