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Re: Brain storming cool Guix features
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L p R n d n |
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Re: Brain storming cool Guix features |
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Mon, 07 Jan 2019 17:48:39 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1 (gnu/linux) |
Hellohello,
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. :(
>
> #+BEGIN_SRC
> (user-account
> (name "joshua")
> (default-font "font-hack"))
> #+END_SRC
>
>
> The above would set a default font for the user joshua.
>
>
> How about a hook that stores the user's profile of packages in a
> manifest file after every package transaction (upgrade or downgrade)?
>
> #+BEGIN_SRC
> (user-account
> (name "joshua")
> (updates-in-manifest #t)
> (manifest-file "/etc/manifest.scm"))
> #+END_SRC
The ability to deal with user profiles in the configure file would be
awesome. Is it already possible to define a "default" manifest for a
user? If not, could be cool too.
>
> 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
As said by Ricardo, currently a cron job might just be enough. In the
long term, a tool to manage updating (pause, schedule, configure stuff)
could be useful.
> --
> Joshua Branson
> Sent from Emacs and Gnus
If I can add, I thought about something.
- Currently, I think the only way for a GuixSD installation to break is
if something goes wrong with the bootloader. Might be nice to have a
tool (in the install image I suppose) to recover the bootloader.
Maybe 'guix system init' can deal with that king of cases for now, I
don't know, but a dedicated command might be able to use the original
store, restore previous generations etc.
Bye,
Lprndn
- Re: Brain storming cool Guix features, (continued)
Re: Brain storming cool Guix features, znavko, 2019/01/04
Re: Brain storming cool Guix features,
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