Re: Implementing guix system rollback / switch-generation

[Leo Famulari]

On Sun, Jun 05, 2016 at 03:29:22PM -0700, Chris Marusich wrote:
> More generally, are people satisfied with the way system rollback is
> currently implemented in GuixSD?  Do you think that the mechanism I'm
> proposing is a bad idea?  I'd hate to try to implement something that
> nobody else thinks is needed.

I roll back from the GRUB menu if I've totally broken the system.
Otherwise, I use Git to manage the system configuration and roll back by
checkout out an earlier commit.

But, I think we should be able to switch to arbitrary system generations
and delete generations with the Guix tools.