bug#52808: closed (Guix home should not assume that all targets are dot files)

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--- Begin Message --- Subject: Guix home should not assume that all targets are dot files Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2021 12:17:27 -0500 User-agent: Cyrus-JMAP/3.5.0-alpha0-4525-g8883000b21-fm-20211221.001-g8883000b

The following configuration results in a `~/.run` symlink being created. My expectation is that a `~/run` symlink is created instead. (ie. not a dotfile)

(home-environment

  (services

    (list (service

            home-bash-service-type

            (home-bash-configuration

          (guix-defaults? #t)))

      (simple-service 'my-files

              home-files-service-type

              `(("run" ,(local-file "run")))))))

This applies to all other targets. My expectation is that the configuration should expect the exact target and not make an assumption that all targets are hidden files, since that allows for more utility:

(home-environment

  (services

    (list (service

            home-bash-service-type

            (home-bash-configuration

              (guix-defaults? #t)))

          (simple-service 'config-files

              home-files-service-type

              `(("run" ,(local-file "run"))

                ("README.txt" ,(local-file "README.txt"))

                (".config/guix/channels.scm" ,(local-file "config/guix

                (".emacs.d/init.el" ,(local-file "emacs.d/init.el"))

                (".vimrc" ,(local-file "vimrc"))

                (".gitconfig" ,(local-file "gitconfig")))))))

Thank you,

-Nick

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> Re: bug#52808: Guix home should not assume that all targets are dot files
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> Fri, 08 Apr 2022 20:18:41 +0200
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> Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.2 (gnu/linux)
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> Hi Andrew,
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> Andrew Tropin <andrew@trop.in> skribis:
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> > Those patches introduce a breaking change, but the surface and number of
> > people affected should be small if everyone migrated to
> > xdg-configuration-files.  It removes the special handling of dot files
> > in symlink-manager and doesn't add a leading dot automatically.
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> > Please, merge them on April 8.
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> > From 1b556cda9716eba31a8a6dd9d3c263988de26ccf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > From: Andrew Tropin <andrew@trop.in>
> > Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2022 11:28:30 +0300
> > Subject: [PATCH 1/2] home: symlink-manager: Remove appending of leading dot.
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> > * gnu/home/services.scm (xdg-configuration-files-directory): Add leading dot.
> > * gnu/home/services.scm (xdg-configuration-files-service-type): Change name.
> > * gnu/home/services/shells.scm (add-shell-profile-file,
> > zsh-get-configuration-files, add-zsh-dot-configuration,
> > add-zsh-xdg-configuration, add-bash-configuration): Add leading dots.
> > * gnu/home/services/symlink-manager.scm (update-symlinks-script): Remove
> > leading dot.
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> [...]
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> > From 5e1f45fa9ea1aca16843dc85d7d21fd46f3cfcb8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > From: Andrew Tropin <andrew@trop.in>
> > Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2022 12:47:39 +0300
> > Subject: [PATCH 2/2] home: Add home-xdg-data-files-service-type.
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> > * gnu/home/services.scm (home-xdg-data-files-service-type): New variable.
> > * gnu/home/services/symlink-manager.scm (update-symlinks-script): Add a proper
> > handling for XDG_DATA_HOME value.
> > * gnu/home/services/xdg.scm (home-xdg-mime-applications-service-type): Use
> > home-xdg-data-files service.
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> Pushed as 20645d8467852990413c1ea9cf81cec82d23defd.
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> Thanks!
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> Ludo’.
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