Hi everyone! I’m working on making a personal project of blue-build with hyprland. I have all of my hyprland dot files saved in another repository and was wondering how to go about having blue-build automagically have them added to the users ~/.config/hypr/ directory. Additionally, a couple of the apps I want to add to my blue build have to be compiled from source, and I have those being copied into the /usr/bin/ but they need to be added to the $PATH, am I able to edit the PATH variable in blue-build or is there a better way to go about that?

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yeah so basically if you want to put a file into

/usr

or

/etc

, you can do that directly by putting it into the image you're building (e.g. with the

files

module). But to add something to

/var

(which includes anything in user home directories), you can't do it directly from the base image, because

/var

doesn't get replaced with image updates; the usual way to handle this is by creating a systemd user service that makes the changes you want (typically with some run condition that makes it only run once).

Also, it's worth mentioning the [chezmoi](https://blue-build.org/reference/modules/chezmoi/) module to move your dotfiles to the desired places in your home directory

If you are compiling software from source, then I'd recommend putting the built binaries into

/usr/bin

as that is where sysadmin binaries go. It will be automatically on the

$PATH

for users by default

⁨`/usr/bin`⁩ (nitpicking ^^)

Nah appreciated💚 was just a typo