Activation iface

[blaggacao]

There's a community effort to specify the activation interface across configurarions (hm/nixos/darwin/etc): https://github.com/viperML/activation-manager

This is an interesting effort to reduce duplication across configuration systems and we may be one of it's adopters.

[water-sucks]

This looks insanely cool! Though since it's super early, I'd probably want to stick to switch-to-configuration.pl while it gets fleshed out. Perhaps we'd hide it behind an experimental compile flag, since we are using those now.

[viperML]

Hello, yeah AM was initially thought as a home-manager replacement, though the core is very slim: just graph nodes, a root and static locations, and a manifest.json that the CLI implementation must agree in the schema.

For now I want to finish basic functionality before committing to an integration, but I am designing the API such that any CLI should be able to run it (the reference implementation is in python )