Re: What’s next?

[Ludovic Courtès]

Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> skribis:

> Chris Marusich <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Leo Famulari <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> So, I use and recommend `guix pull`!
>>
>> I use it too.  Statements by others in this thread that "nobody" uses it
>> or that "everyone" is using Git are mistaken.
>>
>> I use Git when I want to hack on Guix.  Otherwise, I use 'guix pull'.
>> IMO, the biggest problem with 'guix pull' is that there is no easy
>> rollback.  I can live with long execution times (--fallback is fine, but
>> it'd be nice if substitutes were available more often), and I can live
>> with 'guix pull' causing me to get a version of guix that's broken
>> somehow, but the inability to easily roll back when things go south
>> makes me hesitant to run 'guix pull' regularly.
>
> I believe this can be fixed by adding more links to “.config/guix”,
> i.e. before creating “latest” it would create “2017-05-24:08:21:01.123”
> and then link from there to “latest”.  On update it would create a new
> link “2017-05-25:17:45:45.123” and link that to latest.  Roll back would
> be a matter of pointing “2017-05-24:08:21:01.123” to “latest”.

There would be some similarity with profiles.  Should we simply use
profiles, and effectively turn ~/.config/guix/latest into a profile,
with generations etc.?

Food for thought…  :-)

Ludo’.