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Subject: bug#19978: It's too easy to accidentally delete all generations
Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2015 21:59:36 +0200
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taylanbayirli@gmail.com (Taylan Ulrich "Bay=C4=B1rl=C4=B1/Kammer") skribis:

> The other day I ran "guix package -d 1d" thinking it will preserve the
> current generation, but it didn't.  If I'm not mistaken, there's no
> recovery from that either.
>
> Any command that will delete even the current generation should probably
> interactively warn/prompt the user by default, or fail, unless given a
> --force flag.  Documentation should also warn I guess.

I believe d26eb84 fixes that.

There=E2=80=99s no --force flag, but I think it=E2=80=99s unnecessary: it=
=E2=80=99s always
possible to rollback to generation 0 and from there remove whatever.

Thanks,
Ludo=E2=80=99.