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To: Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: Konrad Hinsen <konrad.hinsen@fastmail.net>, 37443-done@debbugs.gnu.org

On Thu, 19 Sep 2019 at 13:57, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> Konrad Hinsen <konrad.hinsen@fastmail.net> skribis:
>
> > Ludovic Court=C3=A8s <ludo@gnu.org> writes:

> Also, now that we finally have =E2=80=9Cguix install=E2=80=9D & co., whic=
h is really
> what users expect, I feel less of an incentive for a catch-all =E2=80=9Cg=
uix
> profile=E2=80=9D command.
>
> Maybe we need more of these aliases, though, like =E2=80=9Cguix show=E2=
=80=9D.

"guix show" would be nice.
But I did not feel a lot of enthusiasm about it. ;-)
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2019-07/msg00264.html

Something nicer should be to have aliases defined by the user.


> >  - Everything that operates on "guix" (the software, including the
> >    package definitions) starts with "itself":
> >
> >      guix itself update  (today's "guix pull")
> >      guix itself roll-back
>
> It=E2=80=99s a another instance where the categorization you propose make=
s sense
> to me, but as a command I=E2=80=99d have to type, it=E2=80=99s not someth=
ing I like.

Me neither. :-)

And "guix itself" fixes implicitly the profile to
~/.config/guix/current and maybe people are doing "non-conventional"
stuff as "guix pull -p ~/.guix-profile --list-generations".

"guix pull --list-generations" should be aliased to "guix log"
"guix pull --delete-generations" -> "guix log --delete-generations"
"guix pull --switch-generations" -> "guix log --switch-generations"
"guix pull --news" -> "guix log --news"


All the best,
simon