bug#68848: New home-dotfiles-service-type creates extra toplevel directories

[Giacomo]

Hi Janneke, thank you for the report. I already pointed out this at https://issues.guix.gnu.org/60521 . there was a fix that was removed by a misunderstanding on the requirements of the service since the code contradicts documentation as you pointed out . It should be pretty easy to apply the fix from 60521.

Thank you

Giacomo

Il 31 gennaio 2024 13:17:25 CET, Janneke Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org> ha scritto:

Hi,

When I follow the documentation, and have

    dotfiles/guix/.config/guix/channels.scm

that shows suing tree -a ./dotfiles

    dotfiles
    └── guix
        └── .config
            └── guix
                └── channels.scm

similar to the documentaion, and using

    (service home-dotfiles-service-type
             (home-dotfiles-configuration
               (directories (list "./dotfiles"))))

creates

    ~/guix/.config/guix/channels.scm

an extra toplevel `guix" directory!

What gives?

Greetings,
Janneke