Re: Updates on the guix home manager

[Konrad Hinsen]

Hi everyone,

>> A new "guix home" subcommand, with support for "guix home build" (that
>> builds a home configuration), "guix home reconfigure" (that builds and
>> ...
>
> Nice!

+1

> Anyway, Guix Home is really cool and it’d be great to provide something
> along these lines out-of-the-box with Guix.  I still find the read-only
> home approach somewhat too radical, but maybe I’m not daring enough.
> ;-)

Home is used for too many things: configuration, personal data storage,
caching in hidden subdirectories, etc. It will take time to sort this
out, but I like the direction, including read-only for the configuration
stuff.

It's probably worth coordinating with other ideas for renovating home,
such as

  https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=systemd-homed

Different objectives, but also interesting ones, and it would be nice if
all that would end up being compatible.

Cheers,
  Konrad.