bug#20137: number of generation doesn't always rise monotonically

[Tomáš Čech]

On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 10:13:13AM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Tomáš Čech <address@hidden> 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’m 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’m not sure.  My guess is that an undo-style tree would turn out to be
> less obvious or more difficult to use.
>
> Currently, understanding what’s going on with M-x guix-generations or
> --list-generations and similar is fairly straightforward.

I'm not using emacs for controling guix at all. But I should start - I can see
that is completely different user experience!

Thanks!

S_W

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