Phrenetic

Configuration components and useful packages/services for GNU Guix.

It’s decent.

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Usage

Install as a Guix channel with the following declaration:

(channel
 (name 'phrenetic)
 (url "https://github.com/pharcosyle/phrenetic")
 (branch "tangled"))

Noteworthy features

Some stuff I haven’t seen elsewhere folks might be interested in:

Stateless service

Configure your Guix to run with an ephemeral, in-memory root directory. Kind of like Erase your darlings: immutable infrastructure for mutable systems but using Guix/Btrfs instead of NixOS/ZFS.

Doom package and module

Doom Emacs packaged for Guix and with patches to better organize Emacs state, a service to set up symlinks, etc.

Guix integration for Straight.el

Your Straight or Doom-based Emacs configuration can use Guix Emacs packages under hood (but with the revisions you, or Doom, specify). Get the best of both worlds! Still WIP.

Miscellaneous packages

Guix packages for stuff not upstream yet: Datomic CLI tools, the AWS CLI v2, etc.

A word about literate programming

I use Emacs’ org-mode to structure my code as a single file that I can export (“tangle”) into numerous source files. This allows me to annotate and organize related code in potentially different languages with different output paths together in a way that easy for humans to read and reason about. This does necessitate maintaining a separate tangled branch (set as the Github default) so others can use it easily, though.

Contributing

Pull requests welcome! Targeting master is ideal but if you aren’t familiar with literate programming / Emacs / org=mode then making your changes on the tangled branch is also fine (I’ll reverse-tangle it for you).

Acknowledgements

This project incorporates code from Andrew Tropin’s excellent RDE, many thanks to him.