Re: Display diffs between generations.

[Ludovic Courtès]

Roel Janssen <address@hidden> skribis:

> Roel Janssen writes:
>
>> Ludovic Courtès writes:

[...]

>>> In the discussion that ensued, it seems there was a consensus to provide
>>> only the diff format:
>>>
>>>   https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2016-09/msg00385.html
>>>
>>> So it seems all the lights are green.  :-)  Let me know if there’s
>>> anything we should do to help!
>>
>> Thanks for the reminder.  I seem to have a lot to finish up :-).  I will
>> work out the arguments and post a new version of the patch for final review.
>
> My GNU mail hasn't been working for a couple of days, but now that it
> does, I wonder if the initial patch I sent is fine as-is, since we agree
> upon only showing the diff format.
>
> Should I implement the --no-diff-format option to change to the
> old behavior?

I don’t think so.  The old behavior will always be available by
specifying a single generation anyway:

  guix package --list-generations=42

It may be worth mentioning this in the manual.

My understanding of the discussion referred above is that people were
fine with that (or indifferent ;-)).

Thanks,
Ludo’.