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From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Raghav Gururajan <rvgn@disroot.org>
Cc: 36466@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#36466: guix pull --delete-generations
Date: Sun, 07 Jul 2019 16:29:25 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wogt9auy.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4df19cf1ab39f15372f545af5c46a9b53287263c.camel@disroot.org> (Raghav Gururajan's message of "Tue, 02 Jul 2019 14:25:41 -0400")

Hi,

Raghav Gururajan <rvgn@disroot.org> skribis:

>> “guix pull” uses a regular profile at ~/.config/guix/current, so you
>> can
>> do “guix package -p ~/.config/guix/current --delete-generations”
>
> Thanks Ricardo! I am aware of this as someone suggested this on IRC. ☺.
> My concern is that there is "guix system delete-generations" and "guix
> package --delete-generations"; but not "guix pull --delete-
> generations".
>
> Bringing "guix pull --delete-generations" will be straight-forward and
> any user does not have to type profile path everytime they delete
> generations. Will also be intutive for new guix users. ☺

Note that there’s also ‘guix gc --delete-generations’, which is really
what newcomers should be using IMO because it operates on all the user’s
profiles.

That said, I think a patch that adds ‘--delete-generations’ to ‘guix
pull’ would also be welcome.

Thanks,
Ludo’.

  reply	other threads:[~2019-07-07 14:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-07-01 18:53 bug#36466: guix pull --delete-generations Raghav Gururajan
2019-07-02  7:02 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-07-02 18:25   ` Raghav Gururajan
2019-07-07 14:29     ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2019-07-07 20:05     ` Raghav Gururajan
2019-07-08  9:42       ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-07-08 18:18         ` Raghav Gururajan
2019-07-08 21:33         ` Raghav Gururajan
2019-07-11 21:34           ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-07-12  5:16             ` Raghav Gururajan
2019-07-12 17:07               ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-07-07 20:06     ` Raghav Gururajan

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