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All of the site’s sections (including the blog) will use the theme’s general Layout option (as configured in the settings). Static pages can have a different layout page template assigned to display different sidebars.
If your homepage is a static page then it can use a different layout page template.
If it’s a posts list then it is basically a posts archive just like the blog – why should the two archives be different layouts?