bug#20137: number of generation doesn't always rise monotonically

["Tomáš Čech" <sleep_walker@gnu.org>]

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On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 10:13:13AM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>Tomáš Čech <tcech@suse.cz> skribis:
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>>>Perhaps we can eventually move to an actual tree structure where the
>>>nodes can be named whatever.  Until now I thought that's how generations
>>>work, and are just named after integers for identification purposes.
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>[...]
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>>>I’m concerned that this would add both code and user interface
>>>complexity for mostly hypothetical use cases.  WDYT?
>>
>> Yes, it would surely add some more code and would be demanding for
>> creating good visual represantation for users, but it could also be
>> much closer to behavior user would expect. And that is something which
>> makes tools to be natural to use.
>
>I’m not sure.  My guess is that an undo-style tree would turn out to be
>less obvious or more difficult to use.
>
>Currently, understanding what’s going on with M-x guix-generations or
>--list-generations and similar is fairly straightforward.

I'm not using emacs for controling guix at all. But I should start - I can see
that is completely different user experience!

Thanks!

S_W

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