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read-only home. Feel free to experiment and share your results.
@end defvar
+@cindex dot files in Guix Home
It is often the case that Guix Home users already have a setup for versioning
-their user configuration files (also known as @emph{dotfiles}) in a single
+their user configuration files (also known as @emph{dot files}) in a single
directory, and some way of automatically deploy changes to their user home.
+@cindex Stow-like dot file management
The @code{home-dotfiles-service-type} from @code{(gnu home services dotfiles)}
is designed to ease the way into using Guix Home for this kind of users,
allowing them to point the service to their dotfiles directory, which must