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Re: Brain storming cool Guix features
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Ricardo Wurmus |
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Re: Brain storming cool Guix features |
Date: |
Fri, 04 Jan 2019 17:01:37 +0100 |
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mu4e 1.0; emacs 26.1 |
Joshua Branson <address@hidden> writes:
> I had some cool ideas/features for things that GuixSD could potentially
> add, and I wanted to share. Are any of these possible?
>
> #+BEGIN_SRC scheme
> (operating system
> (keymap "dvorak")
> ...)
> #+END_SRC
>
> The above would make the bootloader, console, X, and wayland all use the
> dvorak layout. That would be a nice feature! I currently use "dvorak",
> and it's slightly annoying that grub uses qwerty. :(
Same here. Some of this might be accomplished with a system service
that extends configuration files with the required settings. Would you
like to give this a try?
> How about automatic updates? Since a guixSD user can always downgrade
> to the previous version, it would be nice if it would automatically
> update my user profile, root profile and reconfigure say once a week.
>
> #+BEGIN_SRC scheme
> (operating system
> (auto-upgrade #t)
> (auto-upgrade-interval 'once-a-week)
> ...)
> #+END_SRC
Cron jobs can be used here via the mcron service.
--
Ricardo
Re: Brain storming cool Guix features, znavko, 2019/01/04