Re: guix home .bashrc query

[Paul Jewell]

I have spent some time with this now, and post this for completion 
should anyone else have the same query.

The duplication I saw is exactly as expected. The configuration created 
by the "guix home import" command includes a home-bash-configuration 
section. In this section, there is a field guix-defaults? with defines 
whether the .bashrc should be created with the standard guix content. 
This defaults to #t, and is not changed by guix home import. The "guix 
home import " command also adds a bashrc field which adds the current 
content of .bashrc to the end of the default content. Since I hadn't 
made any changes to my .bashrc from the standard, this gave me the 
appearance of duplication.

If it is appropriate, I would be happy to consider how to adjust the 
manual page to make this clearer and to submit a patch. Of course I 
recognise that the manual pages for guix home are currently under 
development, so perhaps my input wouldn't be so helpful! Perhaps the 
"guix home import" command should not add the content of the .bashrc to 
the default - in other words the output should have (guix-defaults? #f) 
included at the appropriate point?

Thanks to Andrew and the other developers for guix home - I like what I 
see! :)


On 29/12/2021 12:15, Paul Jewell wrote:
> On 29/12/2021 12:06, Paul Jewell wrote:
> > I am starting to work with guix home, and after the simple "guix home 
> > import" and guix home reconfigure with the created configuration, I 
> > note that the .bashrc now has the original content from my .bashrc, 
> > but duplicated, with one exception - the check to see if /etc/bashrc 
> > is present before sourcing it has been removed. The aliases 
> > referenced in the configuration file are also added at the bottom (no 
> > surprise in this case - I should just remove them from the copy of 
> > .bashrc taken during the import).
> >
> > Is this duplication a bug, or have I missed something? I can of 
> > course share the configuration file and the contents of .bashrc if 
> > that is helpful.
> >
> > Thanks!
>
>
> Re-reading what I posted, I think I wasn't clear enough. To be 
> absolutely clear - when I say duplicated, I mean the original contents 
> of .bashrc are now in the new .bashrc file twice.