Re: Merging wip-guix-home to master

[Xinglu Chen]

On Thu, Sep 23 2021, Andrew Tropin wrote:

> The core part of Guix Home project has been moved from rde
> repository[fn:1] to wip-guix-home branch of guix repository.
>
> I'm about a week on wip-guix-home branch completely and Guix Home works
> fine.  There are no any major issues on rde-devel and guix-devel mailing
> lists and it seems that branch is ready to be merged.
>
> My guix describe looks like:
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> Generation 114        Sep 17 2021 13:33:55    (current)
>   rde 31f8003
>     repository URL: https://git.sr.ht/~abcdw/rde
>     branch: without-guix-home
>     commit: 31f800353a781cef25fc80c05ad824a068a049c8
>   guix a2324d8
>     repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git
>     branch: wip-guix-home
>     commit: a2324d8b56eabf8117bca220a507cc791edffd2e
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
>
> There is a discussion[fn:2] on moving home services to (gnu services
> ...)  modules, which is likely to happen, but it's possible to do the
> migration relatively painless by re-exporting necessary symbols in
> (gnu home-services ...) at first and removing them completely later.
>
> Another important part of the work related to Guix Home project is
> covering related modules and cli with tests, but it can be done in
> parallel and is not a blocker for merging.

I noticed that the ‘guix home import’ subcommand is included, but I
think it needs more thought and feedback from people before it makes its
way into ‘master’; it also seems to lack documentation.

I just realized that it generates the following service declaration

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(service
 home-bash-service-type
 (home-bash-configuration
  (bashrc
   (list (slurp-file-gexp
          (local-file "/home/yoctocell/.bashrc"))))))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

but when running ‘guix home reconfigure’, the ~/.bashrc file will be
moved, so when running ‘guix home reconfigure’ for the second time, it
would read the ~/.bashrc which is itself a symlink to a file the store.
‘guix home import’ clearly isn’t in a usable state as of right now…

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