From: Jack Hill <jackhill@jackhill.us>
To: Raghav Gururajan <rg@raghavgururajan.name>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: delete-generations or --delete-generations?
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2021 22:55:13 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.21.2108262247030.2109@marsh.hcoop.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fdb27bc6-875e-d0e7-8d8e-4c21331b06c4@raghavgururajan.name>
On Thu, 26 Aug 2021, Raghav Gururajan wrote:
> Hello Guix!
>
> Why there is no '--' prefix to 'delete-generations' for `guix system`, when
> there is for `guix pull` and `guix package`?
Raghav,
I don't know (but I'll speculate in a bit), but it's not just
delete-generations. All of the guix system subcommands (e.g. init,
reconfigure, list-generations) are like that. I suspect this is due to the
organization of all these system-related subcommands under one top level
command. These subcommands are different than options like --no-substittue
and --keep-failed.
I do see what you mean by it being organized a little bit differently than
the other guix commands though. I guess it would be closer if there were a
guix system generations subcommand with --delete --list etc. options. I
have no opinion if this would make sense the implement though.
Hope that helps,
Jack
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-08-27 2:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-08-27 1:04 delete-generations or --delete-generations? Raghav Gururajan
2021-08-27 2:55 ` Jack Hill [this message]
2021-08-27 9:27 ` zimoun
2021-09-08 20:59 ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-09-09 13:47 ` Leo Famulari
2021-09-09 14:14 ` André A. Gomes
2021-09-09 14:44 ` Leo Famulari
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