[bug#69781] [PATCH v2] services: Add the Guix Home Service

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi!

Richard Sent <richard@freakingpenguin.com> skribis:

> I think this approach is best:
>
> 1. Create a new home generation when 'guix system reconfigure' and
> 'guix-home-service' are used.

Yes.  That would placate ‘guix home describe’.

> 2. Make 'guix home reconfigure', 'switch-generations', and 'roll-back'
> all warn that the changes are temporary.

How could they know, though?

> 3. Disable 'guix home delete-generations' on any system-created home
> generations. System-created home generations are deleted when the
> corresponding system generation is deleted.

Same question here.

In short: adding an activation snippet that creates a new Home
generation should be an improvement.

Thanks!

Ludo’.