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Subject: bug#20137: number of generation doesn't always rise monotonically
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2015 10:13:13 +0100
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Tom=C3=A1=C5=A1 =C4=8Cech <tcech@suse.cz> skribis:

>>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.

[...]

>>I=E2=80=99m 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=E2=80=99m not sure.  My guess is that an undo-style tree would turn out t=
o be
less obvious or more difficult to use.

Currently, understanding what=E2=80=99s going on with M-x guix-generations =
or
--list-generations and similar is fairly straightforward.

Thanks for your feedback,
Ludo=E2=80=99.