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Re: Plan for 0.9.0
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Thompson, David |
Subject: |
Re: Plan for 0.9.0 |
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Thu, 15 Oct 2015 08:33:40 -0400 |
On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 8:28 AM, Mathieu Lirzin <address@hidden> wrote:
> Eric Bavier <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> On Wed, 14 Oct 2015 23:44:39 +0200
>> address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) wrote:
>>
>>> Mathieu Lirzin <address@hidden> skribis:
>>>
>>> > address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>>> >
>>> >> Dunno, I admit I’m not as enthusiastic as the other people here. :-)
>>> >>
>>> >> What would ‘guix gc’ (without any option) do?
>>> >
>>> > Show --help and exit(0)? ;)
>>>
>>> Sure we could do that, but I’m not convinced it’s an improvement. WDYT?
>>
>> FWIW, I'm not convinced either.
>
> 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.
- Dave
- Re: Plan for 0.9.0, (continued)
- Re: Plan for 0.9.0, Ludovic Courtès, 2015/10/14
- Re: Plan for 0.9.0, Mathieu Lirzin, 2015/10/14
- Re: Plan for 0.9.0, Ludovic Courtès, 2015/10/14
- Re: Plan for 0.9.0, Eric Bavier, 2015/10/14
- Re: Plan for 0.9.0, Mathieu Lirzin, 2015/10/15
- Re: Plan for 0.9.0,
Thompson, David <=
- Re: Plan for 0.9.0, Mathieu Lirzin, 2015/10/15
- Re: Plan for 0.9.0, Thompson, David, 2015/10/15
- Re: Plan for 0.9.0, Daniel Pimentel, 2015/10/15
- Re: Plan for 0.9.0, Christopher Allan Webber, 2015/10/15
- Re: Plan for 0.9.0, Ludovic Courtès, 2015/10/15
- Re: Plan for 0.9.0, Mathieu Lirzin, 2015/10/15
- Re: Plan for 0.9.0, Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer, 2015/10/15
- Re: Plan for 0.9.0, Ludovic Courtès, 2015/10/15
- Re: Plan for 0.9.0, Alex Vong, 2015/10/16
- Re: Plan for 0.9.0, Mathieu Lirzin, 2015/10/16