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  • tomenzgg@midwest.socialEnglish
    2·
    1 day ago

    Does Home Manager not just have a dot file manager built in? On Guix, I just have my Waybar config. get moved to the appropriate location that Waybar will expect it.

    Some services will even allow you to specify files to get injected into the config.; like the Bash service so I can write some definitions out in a .sh file and the service inserts that contents after the boilerplate it provides into my .bashrc.

    • Oinks@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      7·
      1 day ago

      It does, that’s the home.file escape hatch I mentioned. But then you end up paying 10-30 seconds eval for a “config” that looks like this:

      {
  home.file.".bashrc".source = ./bashrc;
  home.file.".bash_profile".source = ./bash_profile;
  xdg.configFile.nvim.source = ./nvim;
  xdg.configFile.sway.source = ./sway;
  # ...
}

      I suppose there are fringe use cases where Nix attrset merging behaviour is useful, but in the average case I just don’t see much value here.