That's stupid genius in my eyes. What I'd been doing is to find a way to
make software look in /etc/xdg before ~/.config, with... varying degrees
of success. Is there anywhere we could read your implementation?
On 15/04/17 19:36, Peter Jones wrote:
I'd like to manage files in my home directory during system activation.
Sort of like nix-home[1] but during activation so NixOps can also deploy
things such as my shell configuration. I have an idea, and I'm
wondering how terrible it is.
Based on the way etc activation works, I would build a directory in the
nix store and fill it with symlinks to other parts of the store:
/nix/store/xxx-home-pjones/.zshrc -> /nix/store/xxx-zshrc/zshrc
Then, set up a UnionFS mount so that /nix/store/xxx-home-pjones gets
overlaid on top of /home/pjones. This means I don't have to search
through /home looking for links to an old generation to deactivate it,
and rolling back just mounts a previous generation on top of /home.
So, how bad is this idea?
Thanks!
[1]: https://github.com/sheenobu/nix-home
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