[bug#68857] [PATCH] gnu: home: dotfiles: Avoid creating extra directory in $HOME.

[Sergey Trofimov]

Hi Paul,

paul <goodoldpaul@autistici.org> writes:

> Hi everyone,
>
> thank you for your help and comments so far. I have a proposal 
> that should:
>
> - solve https://issues.guix.gnu.org/68848
>
> - allow for both plain and GNU Stow's layouts
>
> - for GNU Stow layouts, allows to select a subset of application 
> dotfiles to be
>   provisioned in the user's home directory. Please Sergey let me 
>   know if this
>  covers your use case .


My dotfiles tree is (relative to ~/.dotfiles):
./guix/home.scm
./backup/.config/..
./android/.config/..
...

It works with such config:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(service home-dotfiles-service-type
   (home-dotfiles-configuration
     (directories
       (list
         (home-dotfiles-stow-directory
           (name "..")
           (applications
           '("backup"
             "android"
             "email"
             "xsession"
             "git"
             "qutebrowser"
             "desktop")))))))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

`name` is in fact a relative path, so this field should be 
renamed.
`applications` are called `PACKAGES` in `stow` man page, so I'd 
rename it to match.