[Nix-dev] Managing /home during system activation

[David Izquierdo]

That's stupid genius in my eyes. What I'd been doing is to find a way to 
make software look in /etc/xdg before ~/.config, with... varying degrees 
of success. Is there anywhere we could read your implementation?

On 15/04/17 19:36, Peter Jones wrote:
> I'd like to manage files in my home directory during system activation.
> Sort of like nix-home[1] but during activation so NixOps can also deploy
> things such as my shell configuration.  I have an idea, and I'm
> wondering how terrible it is.
>
> Based on the way etc activation works, I would build a directory in the
> nix store and fill it with symlinks to other parts of the store:
>
> /nix/store/xxx-home-pjones/.zshrc -> /nix/store/xxx-zshrc/zshrc
>
> Then, set up a UnionFS mount so that /nix/store/xxx-home-pjones gets
> overlaid on top of /home/pjones.  This means I don't have to search
> through /home looking for links to an old generation to deactivate it,
> and rolling back just mounts a previous generation on top of /home.
>
> So, how bad is this idea?
>
> Thanks!
>
>
> [1]: https://github.com/sheenobu/nix-home
>