From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?utf-8?Q?Ludovic_Court=C3=A8s?= Subject: Re: Guix beyond 1.0: =?utf-8?Q?let=E2=80=99s?= have a roadmap! Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2019 22:59:53 +0200 Message-ID: <87mug0lxva.fsf@gnu.org> References: <877e97vws8.fsf@gnu.org> <87zhlz1aiq.fsf@roquette.mug.biscuolo.net> <504D1A97-2EBD-46A1-85B8-091C923DD6A1@vllmrt.net> <87y30lz3e9.fsf@sturm.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:34491) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1i0uBX-0001oQ-CK for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Aug 2019 16:59:56 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87y30lz3e9.fsf@sturm.com.au> (Ben Sturmfels's message of "Fri, 26 Jul 2019 17:00:30 +1000") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Ben Sturmfels Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Hello! Ben Sturmfels skribis: > I'd love to be able to annotate user and system generations with some > text, so that the text is shown back to me when running > "--list-generations". For example: > > - "Everything working, don't delete!" or > - "Testing with CUPS service disabled" or > - "Excluded Jupyter as build is currently failing" or > - "Trialing CSVkit" > > That way I can look back at `guix package --list-generations` and know > what's I ought to keep or delete. Otherwise all you have is the list of > packages but no information about the intent of each generation. I like the idea! Manifest entries have a =E2=80=98properties=E2=80=99 fiel= d that gets serialized, and we could use that to store user-provided messages (comments at the level of the manifest itself would be a better fit, but I think it=E2=80=99s OK.) Thanks, Ludo=E2=80=99.