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The (gnu home services guix)
module provides services for
user-specific Guix configuration.
This is the service type for managing
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/guix/channels.scm, the file that controls the
channels received on guix pull
(see Channels). Its
associated value is a list of channel
records, defined in the
(guix channels)
module.
Generally, it is better to extend this service than to directly
configure it, as its default value is the default guix channel(s)
defined by %default-channels
. If you configure this service
directly, be sure to include a guix channel. See Specifying Additional Channels and Using a Custom Guix Channel for more
details.
A typical extension for adding a channel might look like this:
(simple-service 'variant-packages-service
home-channels-service-type
(list
(channel
(name 'variant-packages)
(url "https://example.org/variant-packages.git"))))