From: Mathieu Lirzin <mthl@openmailbox.org>
To: "Thompson, David" <dthompson2@worcester.edu>
Cc: guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Plan for 0.9.0
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2015 14:51:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vba8gurr.fsf@openmailbox.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJ=RwfZwzO2-8cDC9pCgd_Tq4DGatnVJH5fqXnURVUpDLEBrTg@mail.gmail.com> (David Thompson's message of "Thu, 15 Oct 2015 08:33:40 -0400")
"Thompson, David" <dthompson2@worcester.edu> writes:
> On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 8:28 AM, Mathieu Lirzin <mthl@openmailbox.org> wrote:
[...]
>> I think the enthusiasm for changing ‘guix gc’ was induced by somekind of
>> shared experience of typing it loosely and ending up having to download
>> a lot of substitutes again. So maybe we can keep ‘guix gc’ as it is but
>> make it interactive by listing what is going to be deleted and ask for
>> confirmation with a [Y/n] prompt. This solution will also require
>> somekind of a ‘--force’ option for scripting purposes.
>>
>> Does it sound better?
>
> In general, I do not like interactive CLIs. I'm fine with 'guix gc'
> working as-is. The re-downloading lots of substitutes issue is not an
> issue about the CLI, but rather about not making store items that you
> want to hang around GC roots.
You mean a problem between the keyboard and the chair, or a problem with
the GC being too greedy?
--
Mathieu Lirzin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-10-15 12:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-10-12 21:19 Plan for 0.9.0 Ludovic Courtès
2015-10-13 13:15 ` Daniel Pimentel
2015-10-13 14:37 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-10-13 15:01 ` Alex Vong
2015-10-13 15:27 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2015-10-13 18:26 ` Mathieu Lirzin
2015-10-13 18:30 ` Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer
2015-10-14 19:58 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-10-14 20:06 ` Mathieu Lirzin
2015-10-14 21:44 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-10-14 22:02 ` Eric Bavier
2015-10-15 12:28 ` Mathieu Lirzin
2015-10-15 12:33 ` Thompson, David
2015-10-15 12:51 ` Mathieu Lirzin [this message]
2015-10-15 13:10 ` Thompson, David
2015-10-15 13:15 ` Daniel Pimentel
2015-10-15 14:11 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2015-10-15 14:43 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-10-15 13:40 ` Mathieu Lirzin
2015-10-15 15:31 ` Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer
2015-10-15 19:27 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-10-16 4:14 ` Alex Vong
2015-10-16 7:44 ` Mathieu Lirzin
2015-10-16 11:09 ` Alex Vong
2015-10-16 8:10 ` Registering GC roots Ludovic Courtès
2015-10-16 12:56 ` Alex Vong
2015-10-16 15:41 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-10-16 15:55 ` Alex Vong
2015-10-16 17:21 ` Andreas Enge
2015-10-16 16:28 ` Mathieu Lirzin
2015-10-15 14:41 ` Plan for 0.9.0 Ludovic Courtès
2015-10-15 15:07 ` Mathieu Lirzin
2015-11-02 9:45 ` Ludovic Courtès
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