Hey hey! Alex Kost <alez...@gmail.com> skribis:
> Hartmut Goebel (2017-09-22 14:13 +0200) wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I just stepped into problems listing the generations of "system". Then I >> found out: >> >> "guix system" uses sub-commands >> >> guix system list-generations >> guix system roll-back >> guix system switch-generation >> >> Contrary to this "guix package" uses options: >> >> guix package --list-generations >> guix package --switch-generation >> guix package --roll-back >> guix package --delete-generations >> >> Please also note there is no "guix system delete-generations"! >> >> This difference is confusing. Should I report this as a bug? > > I think it's not a bug, just some inconsistency that was accumulated > with time. I also asked about it 2 years ago: > > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2015-10/msg00960.html > > My understanding is that people would agree on unified actions/options > for "package" and "system" commands. The problem is that no one has > worked in this direction :-) That’s a good summary. :-) There’s also the problem that ‘guix package’ needs to support multiple actions on the same line, for transactions, as in: guix package -i guile -r python So we cannot just have “guix package install” or “guix package remove”. Thoughts? It’s one of these simple problems that appear to lack a simple solution. :-) Ludo’.
