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Subject: Re: New =?utf-8?B?4oCYZ3VpeCBwdWxs4oCZ?=
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2018 18:01:21 +0200
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Hi Chris,

Thanks for your feedback (and apologies for the hiccups!).

Chris Marusich <cmmarusich@gmail.com> skribis:

> Thank you for your hard work on this improvement!  One of the reasons I
> have always been a little scared to run "guix pull" frequently is
> because it was difficult to roll back.  Now that the user-installed Guix
> is managed in a profile of sorts, it will probably be easy to add
> something like "guix pull --roll-back" to help people recover easily.

The manual currently recommends:

  guix package -p ~/.config/guix/current --roll-back

but we could (should?) add a roll-back option directly in =E2=80=98guix pul=
l=E2=80=99.

Ludo=E2=80=99.