Re: New ‘guix pull’

[Brett Gilio]

Ludovico,

  I think it is a good idea to add roll-back to the guix pull with a 
flag of some sort. However, I would be wary of people unintentionally 
rolling-back packages for not understanding the usecase of such a 
feature. However, I suppose that we can not "idiot-proof" everything 
because they did not read the documentation.

Brett Gilio
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On 07/12/2018 11:01 AM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Hi Chris,
>
> Thanks for your feedback (and apologies for the hiccups!).
>
> Chris Marusich <address@hidden> skribis:
>
> > Thank you for your hard work on this improvement!  One of the reasons I
> > have always been a little scared to run "guix pull" frequently is
> > because it was difficult to roll back.  Now that the user-installed Guix
> > is managed in a profile of sorts, it will probably be easy to add
> > something like "guix pull --roll-back" to help people recover easily.
>
> The manual currently recommends:
>
>    guix package -p ~/.config/guix/current --roll-back
>
> but we could (should?) add a roll-back option directly in ‘guix pull’.
>
> Ludo’.