janneke, 1 month ago

@abcdw As happy as I am with Guix home, I miss a more constant flow from the rde into Guix proper?

abcdw, 1 month ago

@janneke Hi Janneke! Can you rephrase a bit. I have a bit hard time extracting the meaning of your question and not sure if I understood it correctly :)

lechner, 1 month ago

@abcdw @janneke Maybe the question is why RDE and Guix Home are two different things?

janneke, 1 month ago

@lechner @abcdw Yes, maybe something like that.

abcdw, 1 month ago

@lechner
@janneke RDE and Guix Home was a one thing at the beginning. After that we upstreamed Guix Home to Guix and it was not the smoothest transition I would say. On of the frustrations was fetching the rationale behind record-based configurations and why it's not a "free-style" data structures based configs: https://github.com/abcdw/notes/blob/fce3dc1/notes/20231228152715-alists_and_records_in_guix_services.org#L6

Also a few related changes was committed without reaching consensus on the topic, which lead to some breakage of RDE and forced us to fork a few home services.

abcdw, 1 month ago

@lechner @janneke After that the decision to maintain our own free-style set of home services was made (which are not upstreamable due to concerns and technical difficulties above):
https://git.sr.ht/~abcdw/rde/tree/b97a4d91/doc/decision-log/0004-rde-flavor-guix-services.org#L1

features mechanism and most of RDE functionality are based on this desicion and thus not transferable to guix proper.

There is also a part about governance model, different technical background of primary contributors and thus different views on design and implementation.

abcdw, 1 month ago

@lechner @janneke As @Jlicht mentioned, it's probably good that RDE is a separate project and developed relatively independently from Guix and the whole ecosystem is not centralaized around one point.