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Diffstat (limited to 'gnu/home')
| -rw-r--r-- | gnu/home/services.scm | 22 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | gnu/home/services/symlink-manager.scm | 15 |
2 files changed, 20 insertions, 17 deletions
diff --git a/gnu/home/services.scm b/gnu/home/services.scm index b7ea6f08dd..e69aa1cb0f 100644 --- a/gnu/home/services.scm +++ b/gnu/home/services.scm @@ -43,6 +43,8 @@ home-run-on-change-service-type home-provenance-service-type + home-files-directory + fold-home-service-types home-provenance @@ -74,12 +76,11 @@ ;;; file (details described in the manual). ;;; ;;; home-files-service-type is similar to etc-service-type, but doesn't extend -;;; home-activation, because deploy mechanism for config files is pluggable and -;;; can be different for different home environments: The default one is called -;;; symlink-manager (will be introudced in a separate patch series), which creates -;;; links for various dotfiles (like $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/$APP/...) to store, but is -;;; possible to implement alternative approaches like read-only home from Julien's -;;; guix-home-manager. +;;; home-activation, because deploy mechanism for config files is pluggable +;;; and can be different for different home environments: The default one is +;;; called symlink-manager, which creates links for various dotfiles and xdg +;;; configuration files to store, but is possible to implement alternative +;;; approaches like read-only home from Julien's guix-home-manager. ;;; ;;; home-run-on-first-login-service-type provides an @file{on-first-login} guile ;;; script, which runs provided gexps once, when user makes first login. It can @@ -262,11 +263,14 @@ esac (file-union "files" files)) +;; Used by symlink-manager +(define home-files-directory "files") + (define (files-entry files) "Return an entry for the @file{~/.guix-home/files} directory containing FILES." (with-monad %store-monad - (return `(("files" ,(files->files-directory files)))))) + (return `((,home-files-directory ,(files->files-directory files)))))) (define home-files-service-type (service-type (name 'home-files) @@ -276,8 +280,8 @@ directory containing FILES." (compose concatenate) (extend append) (default-value '()) - (description "Configuration files for programs that -will be put in @file{~/.guix-home/files}."))) + (description "Files that will be put in +@file{~~/.guix-home/files}, and further processed during activation."))) (define %initialize-gettext #~(begin diff --git a/gnu/home/services/symlink-manager.scm b/gnu/home/services/symlink-manager.scm index eb13d60496..16031ea5d3 100644 --- a/gnu/home/services/symlink-manager.scm +++ b/gnu/home/services/symlink-manager.scm @@ -26,12 +26,11 @@ ;;; Comment: ;;; -;;; symlink-manager cares about configuration files: it backs up files -;;; created by user, removes symlinks and directories created by a -;;; previous generation, and creates new directories and symlinks to -;;; configuration files according to the content of files/ directory -;;; (created by home-files-service) of the current home environment -;;; generation. +;;; symlink-manager cares about xdg configurations and other files: it backs +;;; up files created by user, removes symlinks and directories created by a +;;; previous generation, and creates new directories and symlinks to files +;;; according to the content of directories (created by home-files-service) of +;;; the current home environment generation. ;;; ;;; Code: @@ -84,7 +83,7 @@ ;; store item containing a home generation. (define config-file-directory ;; Note: Trailing slash is needed because "files" is a symlink. - (string-append home-generation "/files/")) + (string-append home-generation "/" #$home-files-directory "/")) (define (strip file) (string-drop file @@ -143,7 +142,7 @@ ;; Create in $HOME symlinks for the files in HOME-GENERATION. (define config-file-directory ;; Note: Trailing slash is needed because "files" is a symlink. - (string-append home-generation "/files/")) + (string-append home-generation "/" #$home-files-directory "/")) (define (strip file) (string-drop file |