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bug#20137: number of generation doesn't always rise monotonically
From: |
Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
bug#20137: number of generation doesn't always rise monotonically |
Date: |
Mon, 23 Mar 2015 10:13:13 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) |
Tomáš Čech <address@hidden> skribis:
>>Perhaps we can eventually move to an actual tree structure where the
>>nodes can be named whatever. Until now I thought that's how generations
>>work, and are just named after integers for identification purposes.
[...]
>>I’m concerned that this would add both code and user interface
>>complexity for mostly hypothetical use cases. WDYT?
>
> Yes, it would surely add some more code and would be demanding for
> creating good visual represantation for users, but it could also be
> much closer to behavior user would expect. And that is something which
> makes tools to be natural to use.
I’m not sure. My guess is that an undo-style tree would turn out to be
less obvious or more difficult to use.
Currently, understanding what’s going on with M-x guix-generations or
--list-generations and similar is fairly straightforward.
Thanks for your feedback,
Ludo’.