How to replace a system package with a patched version in system configuration?

2021-01-10 Thread miyamoto moesasji
I want to add my custom keyboard layout by patching xkeyboard-config so that this layout can be used in the rest of the system configuration. >From the manual on defining package variants it is clear how to define such a patched variant. However it is not at all clear to me how to use the various

Re: How to replace a system package with a patched version in system configuration?

2021-01-10 Thread miyamoto moesasji
I use a heavily customised keyboard layout (https://github.com/moesasji/xkeyboard-config/commit/23fdb4a6966fd65b98b1fd303cfaecf8fcae8556); as I result I need to add my customized layout to the system before I can use the existing keyboard configuration mechanism in guix for the system as a whole.