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Arch Linux, made immutable, declarative and atomic: blendOS v4 released (blendos.co)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Does anybody know if configurations are also declarative?

Basically I want some easy way to spin up something arch linux based with my KDE Plasma settings, pacman hooks, grub configurations etc.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Oh yep, they are declarative, and that's what we've tried to implement with /system.yaml. pacman hooks and grub configs can be defined through /system.yaml (through a combination of the packages and commands arrays), but Plasma config is per-user and so wouldn't be possible to declare unfortunately :( you can declare GNOME config though, fwiw

(disclaimer: blendOS dev here)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

nix has home manager for that, but even then, plasma configs are a huge mess there.

thanks for the reply and your hard work :)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

oh yep, should've clarified, /system.yaml's, as the name might suggest (lol), for system-wide config only, and GNOME just so happens to support system-wide config (dconf and gsettings overrides); we used to have a utility for declaring config for individual users akin to home-manager in blendOS v3, but dropped it with v4 since that wasn't used much; still might make a return though :)

thank you for your support! :)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

Why not just use home-manager on arch?