Hi !
I'm trying to let users reconfigure their home configuration on a shared
guix system, but we can't all have a 700MB .cache/guix dir. I've solved
part of the problem by forbidding guix pull and deploying an up-to-date
system wide guix regularly.
However, when running guix home reconfigure config.scm, with config.scm
containing the most empty home configuration in the history of empty
home configurations:
#+begin_src scheme
(use-modules (beaver home)
(gnu home))
(-> (home-environment
(packages '())
(essential-services '())
(services '())
(location #f)))
#+end_src
guix dutifully pulls the whole guix repo into the cache :/
I know there is a system service I can use to deploy the home
configuration too, but this makes us lose the flexibility of having a
user-configurable home.
I think I'll maintain a systemwide cache as a workaround, but any
guidance as to why guix home needs a full copy of the whole history of
guix would help me understand how to get rid of that.
Thanks in advance.
Edouard.
