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Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> skribis:

> Chris Marusich <cmmarusich@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> 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 =E2=80=9C.config/guix=
=E2=80=9D,
> i.e. before creating =E2=80=9Clatest=E2=80=9D it would create =E2=80=9C20=
17-05-24:08:21:01.123=E2=80=9D
> and then link from there to =E2=80=9Clatest=E2=80=9D.  On update it would=
 create a new
> link =E2=80=9C2017-05-25:17:45:45.123=E2=80=9D and link that to latest.  =
Roll back would
> be a matter of pointing =E2=80=9C2017-05-24:08:21:01.123=E2=80=9D to =E2=
=80=9Clatest=E2=80=9D.

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=E2=80=A6  :-)

Ludo=E2=80=99.