Hellohello,
Joshua Branson <jbra...@dismail.de> 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
