Hello! Ben Sturmfels <b...@sturm.com.au> skribis:
> I'd love to be able to annotate user and system generations with some > text, so that the text is shown back to me when running > "--list-generations". For example: > > - "Everything working, don't delete!" or > - "Testing with CUPS service disabled" or > - "Excluded Jupyter as build is currently failing" or > - "Trialing CSVkit" > > That way I can look back at `guix package --list-generations` and know > what's I ought to keep or delete. Otherwise all you have is the list of > packages but no information about the intent of each generation. I like the idea! Manifest entries have a ‘properties’ field that gets serialized, and we could use that to store user-provided messages (comments at the level of the manifest itself would be a better fit, but I think it’s OK.) Thanks, Ludo’.
