-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On Thu, Sep 26, 2024 at 05:42:42PM +0200, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki wrote: > On Thu, Sep 26, 2024 at 03:22:41PM +0000, deeplow wrote: > > On Thursday, September 26th, 2024 at 3:55 PM, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki > > <marmarek at invisiblethingslab.com> wrote: > > > I like this! > > > > Nice! > > > > > We could put that into vm-config, or even have a new place > > > (bind-dirs prefix?). > > > > A dedicated prefix sounds even better! Perhaps even a chance to get > > a less implementation-specific name like "persistent-app-dirs". > > But either way is even better than (ab)using vm-config. > > One thing to consider is length limitation of qubesdb keys - 63 chars. > Values can be much longer (3k). So, the longer the prefix, the shorter > actual key. But it isn't necessarily a problem, the actual path can be > put as a value, and key could be something short like > "123-my-first-path" (in most cases ordering doesn't matter, but in the > few cases where it does, better to have this numbered prefix). > > > > If present, configuration in /rw/config would be ignored and > > > maybe also /home not bind-mounted anymore (unless > > > listed in bind-dirs explicitly?). > > > > I think /home could be added by default to this bind-dirs prefix > > when creating a new qubes otherwise getting started on Qubes would > > even be more difficult. Installed programs in app qubes "mysteriously > > disappearing" is a commonly reported issue in the forum. > > > > So my suggestion would be to keep the default experience, but allowing > > advanced users to remove /home persistence if desired. This way we'd > > keep regular users happy (because nothing broke) and advanced users with > > yet another tool in their toolbox. > > Yes, this is kinda what propose: on the backend level, have implicit > default include /home, but if you start configuring it manually, you'd > need to include /home (if desirable) yourself too. Ofc, the (G)UI could > propose this option for you to make it easier. > > > One aspect to also think about is how to do this "default home persist" > > in a multi-OS way. Perhaps the default bind-dirs could be obtained > > template's preferences. Maybe stored in "os-home-dirs"? > > I don't think any path in bind-dirs setting could be made OS-agnostic...
For Windows vs Linux I agree, but at least /home is the same under almost every *nix I know of. - -- Sincerely, Demi Marie Obenour (she/her/hers) Invisible Things Lab -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCAAdFiEEopQtqVJW1aeuo9/sszaHOrMp8lMFAmb1jAMACgkQszaHOrMp 8lOv+hAAqbWy3CrpdHJaL2jy+RMAr1CgthLSD0G3FDJ464rpNJ21Jfl4aM7j4KbL AUTRrgLfMczWYEYCXFHK/l0NyFR7plZaYZoApuMAxUfn5ZnpaTnwS/rfXsCJKx/5 CQXSlRQNjmx8QbYw2vBdcmuYIcGwPeBrTLN+rHr21i6263r5Y+nAnWcUTyLQ2skw GF8JUZzhTY+7K6YFhbC0NPY9Hp/HisqMH2maLJkILS26oXJOngfmgyBbG8jpJKPB Q9jtZOIZ+gLX+ZjjMkmRcsiu3rHngrULw2d+YOUA6ObbcqgKJMgm0LFV2YTxO7jS A+fbpW9qrRTmpje7a2NTCSElgGKgLnF8gUOl0tSkVvbVMeienzw1Crxt4Xy6oNCi THpoeHgsBjdibCRYDbXz2AGshG4S7ovGOjQtfpcdNuDbZMPcLQSk5j4TRnIJuy5K DNXoCDlAk5bdbHGzvYo5zZdjVoD7eYWLMq0q0+sbv7uDXij0wyUPZL2CjhBjtZYl mm9q+c+Fr787IMsguCB0SkgZTE9L0ZYWuJ0TnMbztxgkl7wQZnyLK2zJ+UOgWkdr uHR6kHm4f7b+pp51hJSDbRmsNUzySY/YNpyMooNBCdpbUIt5duXefxVB6MUJyL27 rhaXPxommnuQ3BGBJ1uvIzdjE5s5u4FhgbFTulYcD+NjY+Li4B4= =Jzqd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to qubes-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-devel/ZvWMD7tC73CLJ3Fz%40itl-email.
