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On 05/27/2017 at 12:13 Ludovic Court=C3=A8s writes:

> 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/gui=
x=E2=80=9D,
>> i.e. before creating =E2=80=9Clatest=E2=80=9D it would create =E2=80=9C2=
017-05-24:08:21:01.123=E2=80=9D
>> and then link from there to =E2=80=9Clatest=E2=80=9D.  On update it woul=
d 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.?

+1