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From: | Sergey Trofimov |
Subject: | [bug#68010] [PATCH] home: services: Add home-zathura-service-type. |
Date: | Tue, 26 Dec 2023 10:33:16 +0100 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) |
lgcoelho@disroot.org writes:
This service enables a declarative configuration of zathura, the customizable document viewer.
I have mixed feelings about pulling 3rd-party software configurations in guix: - adding it to guix increases maintenance burden: new versions could add or remove config options - it bloats guix: imagine if we add configs for every user-configurable app - such configs are not easily transferrable: if I were to use the same app in non-guix env, I'd have to maintain 2 configs
Another recent example is `oci-container-configuration` which defines a subset of docker-cli startup arguments. The problem is that `docker run` command has 96 options and the configuration only uses a handful, lacking a way to provide the remaining ones.
I think guix should not embed config generators for user software. The only need I see for such generators is when there are options which should be the same among multiple applications (e.g. color schemes or shared directories). For such usecase guix should provide better text manipulation tools which home owners could use to parameterise configs.
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